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Geotimes October 2007 Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic.  |
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions.  |
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.  |
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever |
From Hot to Cold in the Arctic For the first time, scientists have recovered direct evidence of what life in the Arctic has been like for the past 56 million years. A new 400-meter-long sediment core is revealing that all in the Arctic has not always been as it seems.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.  |
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.  |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc.  |
Scientific American March 2007 Charles Q. Choi |
Pole Positions More than 30 nations are initiating a global campaign to study the Arctic and Antarctic: an International Polar Year.  |
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars.  |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Planet Earth After five years and more than $25 million, BBC's award-winning Natural History Unit presented the landmark documentary series Planet Earth. Here are five things you may not know about the making of the program.  |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community.  |
Adventure April 2006 Richard A. Lovett |
Bears, Winds Fail to Derail Winter North Pole Trek The first ever winter trek to the North Pole reached its goal despite setbacks from weather, equipment failures, and polar bears.  |
Geotimes April 2005 |
Geomedia Arctic Climate Change in Photos... Book review: Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall... Mapping Sinkhole Risk in Maryland...  |
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic.  |
Outside February 2004 Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality.  |
Outside May 2009 Brian Kevin |
Mickey Mouse Operation Disney is getting back to its nature-documentary roots, but can the company escape its own legacy?  |
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Margo Pfeiff |
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint.  |
D-Lib February 2009 Jessica Fries-Gaither |
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is an online magazine for elementary teachers that brings polar science into classrooms nationwide.  |
Fast Company November 2010 Joshua Hammer |
The Siberian Energy Rush Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.  |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work.  |
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.  |
Popular Mechanics February 13, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
New IMAX Film, Under the Sea 3D, Puts Audiences in the Ocean Director Howard Hall seeks to make people fall in love with creatures of the ocean, several of which are in danger to become extinct.  |
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright |
Coast Guard Examines Future of Patrolling The Arctic The Coast Guard anticipates increased duties patrolling the Arctic region due to global warming.  |
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Adam Aston |
Wild Fixes For A Warming Planet Scientists are envisioning giant but risky engineering projects to undo climate change.  |
Smithsonian January 2004 John F. Ross |
Top Dogs The Polar Inuit's ancient bond with the sled dog remains intact, thanks in part to a ban on snowmobiles. But the lure of technology threatens these 'sturdy, magnificent animals'.  |
Scientific American September 2008 David Appell |
The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth--Maybe Researchers debate whether Earth will be swallowed by the sun as it expands into a red giant billions of years from now  |
Popular Mechanics February 6, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Sun Stays Sluggish as Weathermen Fight for Anti-Ice Age Funding With a debate over implications on climate change at stake, solar researchers in Canada have been finding new lows in magnetic field outputs from the sun.  |
Wired September 22, 2008 Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative.  |
National Defense August 2008 Matthew Rusling |
Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance.  |
Science News November 24, 2007 |
Science Safari: Poles Apart, but Viewed Together Check out animal migration through the Arctic on International Polar Year's new website.  |
Science News November 27, 2004 |
From the November 24, 1934, Issue Nobel Chemistry Award for Discovery of Deuterium... Mysterious "Great Red Spot" of Jupiter is Explained... Polar Ice Cap Shivering in Perpetual Vibration...  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss  |
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing.  |
National Defense February 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Pressure Builds for New Polar Icebreaker Of the Coast Guard's three icebreakers, only two are operational. More pressure is being put on the service to build a new heavy-duty vessel.  |
Wired December 20, 2007 Erica Lloyd |
A Search for Hot Springs in the Arctic Yields Much More Remarkable Finds Scientists explore the Arctic Gakkel Ridge and find new species of microbes.  |
Geotimes August 2006 Steven Quane |
It's Not Hairspray: America's Need for Science Education We are facing real and immediate energy and environmental challenges that require genuine and progressive leadership to solve. Greater public understanding of science and sound scientific processes have the potential to transform our society.  |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Longer polar ice record Geoscientists have beefed up a dataset documenting ice cover at Earth's poles, revealing a longer and slightly different picture than painted in the past by satellite observations.  |
Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change.  |
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Jeff Wise |
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather.  |
Popular Mechanics March 12, 2007 Erin McCarthy |
Ice Queens 5 high-powered icebreaker ships that rock the arctic, antarctic and an ice sheet near you  |