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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
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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
December 9, 2011
Andrew Shore |
Arctic Biting Back Over Mercury Pollution Scientists have investigated the temporal trends of mercury using polar bear teeth. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 21, 2007
Paul Shread |
Grid Spans the Globe A new 'Polar Grid' will help scientists measure the effects of global warming in real time. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
National Defense
February 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Military Challenged by Changing Arctic Landscape Patrolling the cold, icy waters of the Arctic has long been the responsibility of the Coast Guard, but as polar ice melts and ship traffic in the area increases, the Navy may take a larger role in securing the region and take advantage of new equipment. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2005
Rich Smith |
Arctic Cat: Good Kitty Yesterday's earnings report had investors pleased with snowmobile and all-terrain-vehicle maker Arctic Cat. |
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. |
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'. |
National Defense
April 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Coast Guard Considering Permanent Bases in Arctic The Coast Guard will for the first time dispatch one of its new National Security Cutters to the Arctic as the ice breaks up on Alaska's North Slope this summer. |
Geotimes
October 2007 |
Geomedia Movies: Saving Our Sun: A Review of Sunshine... Change is in the Air: A Review of Arctic Tale... |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Stephen Cass |
Summer Reading Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by David Standish... Kids to Space: A Space Traveler's Guide by Lonnie Jones Schorer... etc. |
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. |
National Defense
September 2014
Christina Munnell |
Congress, Federal Agencies Decline to Help Coast Guard Fund New Polar Icebreaker The Coast Guard needs $1 billion to build a new polar icebreaker. Members of Congress at a recent hearing said the service wasn't going to get it. At least not from them. |
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. |
National Defense
March 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Coast Guard Refocusing Missions Toward Western Hemisphere, Arctic The Coast Guard faces a future of expanded missions around the globe that will force it to reposition much of its fleet to the Western Hemisphere and Arctic region. |
Outside
July 2007
Grayson Schaffer |
Live Earth On July 7, more than 100 bands, including Sting and his old Police mates, will rock all seven continents for Al Gore's Live Earth concerts. |
Geotimes
November 2005
John A. Kelmelis |
The Geosciences and Future Foreign Policy The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of State have paired up in a project to identify emerging earth science findings that are both reliable and have foreign policy implications. |
National Defense
December 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Russia Expands Military Presence in Arctic Russia is increasing its military presence along its northern border in the Arctic as sea ice melts and opens new water routes. |
