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Outside April 2007 Stephanie Pearson	Mr. Cool Guess who's hot in Hollywood? Will Steger. With producers suddenly primed to make environmental films, the legendary polar explorer hit L.A. with a scary pitch about global warming and he was a smash.
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.
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.
Fast Company September 2004 Cheryl Dahle	On Thin Ice After a history-making, 94-day trek across Antarctica, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen faced the toughest challenge of their journey: finding the courage to surrender.
AskMen.com Dennis Ryan	My Life As An Explorer Currently, Eric Larsen and his partner Ryan Waters are trekking from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole in an attempt to break the unsupported expedition record set by a Norwegian team in 2006.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
Geotimes March 2006 Lisa Rossbacher	Can You Hear me Now? The world of communication is completely different from what the early explorers of this continent experienced -- one full of constant connection.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Outside March 2003 Michael Roberts	Cool Trip South Africa's Mike Horn is circling the Arctic by land and by sea -- with no engines allowed
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.
Outside February 2006 Melinda Mahaffey	Sit, Stay...Survive! The real-life hairy adventure behind Disney's new polar epic Eight Below tells the story of a team of sled dogs who live through a brutal Antarctic winter after the scientists who brought them in have to evacuate.
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.
Wired July 2002 Michael Behar	Cold Rush Long hours. Subfreezing winds. months of absolute darkness. Welcome to the South Pole, where the coolest science outpost on earth is being built atop 9,000 feet of solid ice. The area is a benchmark for monitoring the health of the atmosphere and an ideal site for studying astronomy.
Outside May 2003 Tim Neville	Latitude Adjustment Ten more ways to frolic in the far north's summer sun
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.
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.
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.
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.
Outside July 2009 Ryan Krogh	Skiing the North Pole John Huston and Tyler Fish became the first Americans to ski unsupported to the North Pole. They dragged 300-lb sleds, swam in arctic water, and ended their fete with a 66-hour dash to reach a Russian cargo plane.
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.
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.
Reason February 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	A Chilling Tale of Global Warming The UN has ventured into children's publishing with a scary story about a small boy who loses a dogsled race because of global warming.
AskMen.com Mike Sheppard	My Life As A Dog sledder We took a trip to Breckenridge, CO, to spend a day with dogsled guide and professional dog racer Tim Thiessen. As he went about his day, we learned a ton about the ins and outs of the world of dog sledding.
Geotimes December 2004 Laura Stafford	Vying for the North Pole Eight countries are vying for rights to the North Pole. They all want a piece of the icy Arctic region's untold amounts of oil, natural gas and other offshore resources.
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.
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.