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US undergrads crash NASA satellite into Arctic

Sep
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
31

Sea ice around Antarctica. 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. more »

 

Deepwater Horizon fears resurface as rigs probe for oil under Arctic ice

Aug
30

Arctic wolf ExxonMobil and Shell compete to drill in wilderness despite Greenpeace’s fears a broken well could gush for years, says guardian.co.uk more »

Receding ice could unlock arctic trove

Aug
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 Thickness

Aug
25

According to news.softpedia.com,  a team of researchers from the Bremerhaven, Germany-based Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is now taking on a very difficult task – measuring ice thickness in Arctic regions. more »

Greenland’s new ice island slides toward the sea

Aug
24

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). more »

 

Harper on five-day Arctic sojourn

Aug
23

Slideshow image 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. more »

A perfect setup on climate fails to persuade

Aug
20

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. more »

 

Arctic villages stop seismic tests as Canada mulls oil future

Aug
19
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Click here to find out more!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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