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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.   |
Adventure
February 2006
Brad Wieners |
Dark Alliance: Two Explorers Trek to the North Pole in Complete Darkness--Audio Interview Can the world's two greatest living solo explorers share a tent without driving each other crazy - or worse, getting each other killed? Borge Ousland and Mike Horn are about to find out on the first-ever trek to the North Pole in the pitch black 24-hour dark of polar night. |
Outside
November 2002
Christopher Solomon |
Arcs over the Arctic Knocking off the 5,000-foot runs of Northern Canada's Baffin Island -- a largely uninhabited Arctic wilderness in the territory of Nunavut that is full of deep, snowy, virgin couloirs -- has long been a dream for ski mountaineers. Kite-skiing made it a reality. |
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. |
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. |
Outside
May 2003
Tim Neville |
Latitude Adjustment Ten more ways to frolic in the far north's summer sun |
Outside
January 2004
Michael Roberts |
Permamush Will Steger launches a new Arctic dogsled expedition to put global warming on the world's front burner. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Richard Morgan |
Today, Countries Battle for a Piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The Moon. What has gone unnoticed amid the international clamor between Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the US is that the Arctic battle has implications that reach far beyond the top of Earth. The squabbling will be a prelude to -- and even set the tone for -- eventual sovereignty claims on the moon. |
Outside
November 2009
Ryan Stuart |
Extreme Explorer Eric Larsen Explorer Eric Larsen hopes to become the first person to reach earth's three most extreme points -- both poles and Mount Everest -- in one year. |
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. |
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. |
National Defense
August 2014
Stew Magnuson |
New Satellite Systems to Boost Communication Coverage in Arctic A Navy report says the Arctic region is warming up at twice the pace of the rest of the Earth. This has important national security implications. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Geoffrey Gagnon |
Foreigners Keep Out! High Tech Mapping Starts to Redefine International Borders Countries vie to claim control of different regions in the North Pole. |
Health
April 2007
Tracy Teare |
Walk It Off! Surefire strategies to rack up more steps and burn more calories and fat every day. |
Outside
August 2001
Michelle Pentz |
Lost Worlds Going Beyond the African Safari... |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Susan Karlin |
Inuits in Arctic Canada Use Internet to Connect to Each Other Inuits in Arctic Canada use the Internet to pass along traditions and bridge a generation gap. |
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. |
