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US undergrads crash NASA satellite into ArcticSep
1 Undergraduate students in America managed to get control of the manoeuvring thrusters of an orbiting 2000-lb NASA satellite at the weekend, sending it plummeting into the Earth’s atmosphere to rain burning fragments across the chilly seas north of Norway and Russia, says theregister.co.uk more »
What’s Sea Ice?Aug
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Deepwater Horizon fears resurface as rigs probe for oil under Arctic iceAug
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Receding ice could unlock arctic troveAug
27 HELSINKI, Finland, — Receding arctic ice from global warming may open new avenues for tourism and trade and could reveal vast new natural resource reserves, says upi.com. more »
Aircraft Does Flybys to Analyze Arctic Ice ThicknessAug
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Greenland’s new ice island slides toward the seaAug
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Harper on five-day Arctic sojournAug
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A perfect setup on climate fails to persuadeAug
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Arctic villages stop seismic tests as Canada mulls oil futureAug
19  WASHINGTON — Above the Arctic Circle in Canada near Greenland, five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an underwater region that abounds with marine life — and possibly with oil, gas and minerals, says mcclatchydc.com more »
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According to ouramazingplanet.com, the term “sea ice” has been sending shivers down many spines with the growing threat of global warming, but many non-scientists still misunderstand what sea ice really is. 
ExxonMobil and Shell compete to drill in wilderness despite Greenpeace’s fears a broken well could gush for years, says guardian.co.uk 
According to voices.washingtonpost.com, earlier this month we helped break news of a huge new ice island that calved off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. (That followed the story from earlier this summer that a major chunk of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier broke off as well). 
According to ctv.ca, Prime Minister Stephen Harper begins his fifth summer sojourn to the Arctic today, with plans to visit all three northern territories over five days. 
Everything came together this summer, with hot temperatures along the East Coast and testimonials from government scientists that 2010 was the hottest year ever, says oregonlive.com.