the Arctic

Green campaigners said the spill demonstrated the dangers of oil exploration, and called for an end to proposals to drill in the Arctic.

Looking over the endless, empty horizon of the Arctic, I find it hard to imagine this spot being of any importance to global affairs.

A few years ago the projection was that the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free in the summers by about the year 2080.

In North America, one currently runs through the panhandle of Florida up to the Great Lakes and into the Arctic Ocean.

This theory is often supported by the fact that it is impossible to search the bottom of the Arctic currently for it.

We hope you are able to travel to far-north places like the Arctic Circle and see the Northern Lights at least once during your lifetime.

With its passengers bundled against the arctic wind blowing off the Beaufort Sea, the small boat speeds smoothly across the lagoon.

Last time, I was able to book a cruise to the Arctic to see a solar eclipse.

There is no doubt that this is the beauty of the Arctic summer, enjoy the visual.

MARK C. SERREZE has spent most of his research career trying to understand the snow, ice and climate of the Arctic.

It said the Arctic Sea ice dropped to its second-lowest level during the melt season since satellite measurements began in 1979.

Mr Harper said the developments demonstrated to the world that Canada had a "real, growing, long-term presence in the Arctic" .

When there's a smaller gradient, air is often able to flow down from the Arctic.

Near the Arctic Circle, it was the final part of the nation to be explored and settled.

Yi said it would be dangerous to try to use the results to predict when the Arctic might be ice-free in summer.

This is, obviously, that famous view now of the Arctic, which is likely to be gone at this point in the next three or four or five years.

In the Arctic, above the ice and below, wildlife prospers in what might seem to be an inhospitable environment.

A LITTLE OVER A DECADE AGO, NOKIA WAS AN UNKNOWN COMPANY IN A TINY country on the edge of the Arctic Circle.

But most coastal states around the Arctic are not keen to have their hands tied by an international agreement of this kind.

Think of Ireland. Rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, make it a third bigger and hang it like a pendant from the Arctic Circle.

The unusual cold might have been driven at least partly by the Arctic Oscillation (AO).

Then, this past winter, there was a natural weather shift called the Arctic Oscillation, sort of a cold weather cousin to El Nino.

As the ocean currents and the Arctic anti-cyclone, the Arctic is not the coldest place in the central Arctic Ocean.

For now, the only inter-governmental body with a say over the region is the Arctic Council: its mandate is narrowly environmental.

One of the main reasons for the increase in temperature is that the snow would no longer be cooling the air over the Arctic.

At midsummer night, the sun does not sink even at midnight in the northernmost areas of the Northern Hemisphere beyond the Arctic Circle.

Though it prefers hunting small mammals, the Arctic fox is at heart an opportunist. The Arctic is no place to be picky.

Despite the appearance of a free-for-all , governments and scientists still co - operate over the Arctic; often there is no choice.

The Arctic can be defined in a number of different ways but is generally considered to be the region inside or near to the Arctic Circle.

They vary from that of Mexican desert at the canyon bottom to the arctic-alpine type of the San Francisco peaks.

Climate change is now opening up the Arctic for potential oil and gas exploration as the sea ice retreats.

If it cost no more to sail through the Arctic than anywhere else, yes: the savings per voyage would be huge.

The scientists also determined that this sulfur accumulation closely tracked with temperature changes in the Arctic.

The first kayaks were constructed with a wooden frame covered with seal skin and used to hunt in the open waters of the Arctic Ocean.

The scientific labours in the chill winds and high seas of the Arctic summer seem wrapped in an unusual sense of urgency this year.

The change in the Arctic is enough toexplain a recent increase in global methane levels in the atmosphere, he said.

Ner'zhul cast a plague of undeath - which had originated from deep within the Frozen Throne, out into the arctic wasteland.

For most people faced with images of oil sands being dug up in Canada or reserves in the Arctic being exploited, this might seem remarkable.

Ice, seen from below, covers the surface of the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. The sea is found north of Alaska and Canada.

Temperatures in the Arctic have risen twice as fast as the rest of the world in recent decades, a phenomena known as Arctic amplification.

Russia prepares to test launch several intercontinental ballistic missiles over the Arctic the next couple of days.

The Arctic is an ocean, covered with drifting packed ice and hemmed in by the land masses of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Al Gore said the arctic ice is melting fast and that the world may only last twenty-three years.

It cautioned, however, that the Arctic Sea's Automatic Identification System equipment may not be on the ship itself anymore.

In fact, they have gone just about as wild as it is possible to get, examining polar bears on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

Scientists predict that if it makes it to the Arctic, it could spread around the world.

If the Arctic is warming faster than might be expected, other parts of the world are warming slower.

Any attempts of industrialization of the Arctic territories have always been accompanied by its terrible pollution.

"What is going on in the Arctic now is the biggest and fastest thing that nature has ever done, " he said.

The Arctic sea ice is shrinking so fast that within the next few decades, if not years, it could be completely gone in summertime.

The summer ice loss in the Arctic is now equal to an area the size of Alaska, Texas, and the state of Washington combined.

The Arctic fox can survive some of the most extreme temperatures on the planet with its thick fur and low surface-area-to-volume ratio.

The arctic fox is one of the few truly arctic animals and of course the slyest animal in the world.

But, even as the Arctic warms, seemingly irrevocably, it is still a formidable environment in which to operate, particularly in the winter.

We have a spring in our step now that the horrors of the Arctic winter seem to have passed and the Arctic spring has arrived.

In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics.

At the Arctic Circle, the sun cannot be seen above the horizon in December.

American scientists say ice covering the Arctic Sea continued to shrink last winter.

But, at the moment, members of the Arctic Council are resisting the expansion of their exclusive club.

First the Russians planted a flag on the bottom of the Arctic. Then they promised to return to the Mediterranean.

He is expected to push for oil exploration around the Lofoten archipelago in the Arctic, and for membership of the EU.

Treeless regions found in and around the Arctic, tundra s are among Earth's coldest, harshest biomes.

"We have detected the human fingerprint in both the Arctic and Antarctic region[s], " says Peter Stott , a climate modeler at the U. K.

"The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down, " he said.

Therefore, the Arctic's Inuit women, in the long winter to stop ovulation, until spring when the resumption of menstrual Lai Chao.

The East Greenland Current flows southward from the Arctic along the island's eastern coast, carrying sea ice with it.

Russia's Mediterranean plans pale in comparison with its audacious foray into the Arctic, the biggest recent story in the Russian media.

The keys of the organ are made of the bones of a mammoth found on the Arctic shore.

Today environmental groups are fighting proposals to open protected areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

Fall brings changing patterns of color and motion to much of the United States, which covers lands from the tropics to the Arctic.

In the Arctic, the sun never rose less than a high altitude, even in mid-summer, the rising point of view it is not more than 23. 5 degrees.

Scientists have already shown that the amount of sea ice in the Arctic is falling, and the latest data confirms the long-term trend.

After all, if the Arctic does not provide new supplies of oil, they will have to be obtained somewhere else.

"We only have 50 years of observations of the Arctic, " Miller said, referring primarily to satellite sea ice observations.

Ban Ki-moon has just returned from the Arctic where he traveled to see firsthand how modern-day climate change is altering the region.

Still, the new discovery and new classification of barrier islands around the Arctic Ocean is an eye-opener.

The vulnerability of the Arctic is one of the factors Mr. Ban cited when in a speech in Geneva.

The warming of the Arctic is releasing toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered.

A decrease in the number of these smaller animals would in turn decrease the food supply for the arctic fox and the wolf.

also, he knew that in that direction the Arctic Circle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens.

Ban Ki-moon has just returned from the Arctic where he traveled to see first hand how modern-day climate change is altering the region.

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and this summer its sea ice is melting at a near-record pace.

The two companies are planning to put a total of over $3bn into exploration of the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea.

"So global warming could produce more air pollution in the arctic, " she said.

We met a group of adventurers travelling to the Arctic ocean by fire ballons . &we hopped onto the last ballon on an impulse.

The Tasiilaq experience is a graphic illustration of the sharp temperature rises being experienced across the Arctic.

That industry, with its own purposes in mind, is also keening to move into deeper waters, especially in the Arctic.

Chinese activity in the Arctic to some extent mirrors that of other non-Arctic countries, as the region warms.

As spring arrives in the Arctic a mother polar bear emerges from her den with two tiny cubes.

I really really wanted to go to the Arctic. There was something about that place which drew me to it.

The Arctic's sensitivity to climate change is due to its unique natural conditions and geo graphical situation.

The reason so much ozone has been lost over the Arctic and Antarctic is the presence of chlorine in the upper atmosphere.

It is usually not passable, even in sum-mer, because of ice. But melting ice makes it easier for ships to go through the Arctic.

Sea ice extent - simply put, the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice varies every year, but trends can be established over time.

After returning from the Arctic Ocean, the ship was laid up for repairs.

Few now disagree that, at some point this century, the Arctic will start to see ice-free summers.

From Sabine, the Assistant Cook and one of the activists on board the Arctic Sunrise in the Med right now - for our bluefin tuna campaign.

IT MAY come as a surprise to a walrus wondering where all the Arctic's summer sea ice has gone.

We have been out on the ice since March and the Arctic summer is nearly here.

Melting ice in Greenland freshens the seas near the Arctic and contributes to rising sea levels around the world.

Since China is now viewed as the most likely peer opponent, Russia is focusing on defending oil & mineral reserves in the Arctic.

"There is no race for Arctic resources, and no appetite for conflict, " says Michael Byers, author of the book "Who Owns the Arctic? "

With talk like that, coming out of Russia is Moscow then a right place to be holding a major conference on the future of the Arctic.

Tundra is the name given to the low, marshy plains of Europe, Siberia, and North America that border on the Arctic Ocean.

Geological research shows that whenever Earth heats up a few degrees, the Arctic gets three times as warm.

From the frigid waters of the Arctic, this polar bear climbed onto an ice floe for a rest before returning to the water to hunt for food.

In most sections of the Arctic where estimates are available, polar bear populations are thought to be stable at present.

The Arctic is locked into a destructive cycle that could see its icy cover rapidly disappear, scientists have confirmed.

Other explorers to the Arctic Ocean have sought the fabled Northwest Passage direct shipping route from Europe to Asia across the polar ice.

Russia's leaders have never been coy about their designs on the Arctic.

As in other parts of the Arctic, the indigenous people of Greenland are flexing their political muscles.

However, with so much of the Arctic unexplored the estimates are unreliable.

The Arctic and the Antarctic as a very day-and Polar night phenomenon became more obvious near the North Pole.

None of these men have retraced his pioneering journeys in the Antarctic or the Arctic.

Bowhead whales, the giants of the Arctic, are using the Northwest Passage to move across the top of the Americas.

Work of the separate motorized rifle brigade dislocated in the Arctic Circle is far from being simple.

Last week he told the US senate committee on energy and commerce that the arctic is now melting at an "unprecedented" rate.

To protect the whale form the cold of the Arctic seas , nature has provided it with a thick covering of fat called blubber .

By the end of summer, the Arctic sea ice has retreated, leaving the walrus herd to search for a safe haven on land.

The Arctic holds one-fifth of the world's undiscovered, recoverable oil and natural gas, the United States Geological Survey estimates.

Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway and Denmark are currently competing to secure subsurface rights to the Arctic.

The amplification of global warming in the Arctic has had significant impacts on this region, including melting of the Arctic sea ice.

There's nothing we see in the Arctic which suggests the pre-eminence of the oil resources of the Gulf states would be shifted.

There was a suggestion to move the oil spill to the arctic so that it could freeze up there and be no more dangerous.

Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to help secure America's energy future ?

The cold air has been blowing out of the Arctic and Siberia; the hot air has been blowing out of the mouths of senior businessmen.

How will the area around the arctic circle in Norway be affected by the Atlantic stretch tsunami?

Most of it lies inside the Arctic Circle , and a huge sheet of ice covers 85% of it .

Experts now say if the trend continues, in 100 years by the end of each summer, there will be no ice at all in the Arctic Ocean.

Ilulissat, Greenland, is north of the Arctic Circle, an outpost at the edge of one of the world's largest and thickest glaciers.

But those watching the Arctic changes at the ice center say there is no need to worry at the moment.

From the Bering Strait into Alaska, northern Canada, through the Greenland area Mongolians living in the Arctic CircleSpecies of a group.

Captured in the Arctic Circle above the still waters of a lake, it is an undeniably awe-inspiring display.

In summer, the Arctic is bathed in light constantly, but there isn't as much snow and ice to reflect the light back into space.

Global warming will most harm the animals adapted to the coldest environments, primarily those accustomed to life in the Arctic.

Eleven of the Arctic Sea's sailors were also flown back to Moscow for interrogation, and subsequently barred from talking to the press.

For other countries, the United States, Canada, Norway and Russia also claim large areas of the Arctic.

Unlike most other fish, it has a warm-blooded circulatory system that enables it to roam from the Arctic to the tropics.

Black carbon deposited on the Arctic snow and ice, he says, will have only a minimal effect on its reflectivity.

The fall-out would be felt thousands of miles away from the Arctic, unleashing a global sea level rise of 23ft (7 metres), Alley warned.

Alaska is on the border of northwestern Canada, far enough north that part of it is within the Arctic Circle.

Hunted to near extinction in parts of Scandinavia, the arctic fox is plentiful elsewhere, including here in Iceland.

Recently, rapid warming of the Arctic has made it possible for the Northwest Passage navigation.

environmental project which shows protected and unprotected areas of the Arctic that are equally beautiful and worth saving.

This forest existed at a time when the Arctic was cooling, climate was deteriorating very quickly.

The proposal was triggered by rising temperatures in the Arctic that are reducing the sea ice polar bears need for hunting .

"Previous studies have been hampered by a lack of quality data for the Arctic, " Screen said.

the architects built it, one of six units in a "Treehotel, " which recently opened 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. . .

The report forecasts that the Arctic Ocean, within three or four decades, will likely become nearly ice free during the summer months.

In the Arctic tundra, over-population and a scarcity of food sends lemmings on mass migrations at high speeds.

During the Arctic summer, the sun dips low on the horizon but never sets.

If the earth continues to warm, the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free during the summer, allowing life there to flourish, scientists say.

The increased accessibility of the enormous hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic region is changing the geostrategic dynamics of the region.

A potential strategic interest of China could be in the extraction of natural resources of the Arctic, the report said.

And as the traffic in the Arctic increases, so too will the need for icebreakers like the Yamal.

Scientists in the Arctic are reporting a rare mass migration of thousands of walrus from the ice floes to dry land along Alaska's coast.

Oil is one reason why the Arctic countries suddenly seem so much more bold.

The Pennsylvania State University hydrologist works in remote regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, where ice and frozen ground are thawing.

Now let's go up to the Arctic Circle. There is a great race on for energy resources under the Arctic seabed.

It is believed to be melting the polar ice caps, making the Arctic waters even more accessible to shipping, slashing journey times.

Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military.

Each December, while darkness engulfs the Arctic, Antarctica enjoys round-the-clock sunlight.

THE Arctic is changing faster and more dramatically than any other environment on the planet.

Their route of entry in the New World was the Arctic land bridge connecting northern Asia to North America.

Ideally, sea ice volume - extent multiplied by thickness - is the best indicator of the health of the Arctic sea ice.

the sun visible at midnight (inside the arctic or antarctic circles).

These birds are able to survive the perils of the Arctic winter.

That was the story of the exploration of an entirely new world which was supposed to be situated somewhere north of the Arctic circle.

Then the human grasp on Yor Shor will unclench forever, leaving it to slowly tumble into the Arctic desert.

Nearly every Samoyed dog in the West today has ancestors that were used to explore the Arctic and Antarctic.

Gather your forces and meet me in the arctic land of Northrend. It is there that we shall settle this score between us.

Of course, that's easier said than done; the Arctic is a forbidding, isolated area, short of people and encased in ice much of the year.

Captain of the Yamal, Alexander Lembrik says the Arctic's untapped potential is the reason behind the dramatic increase in maritime traffic.

We seek to pursue these opportunities in a smart, sustainable way that preserves the Arctic environment and ecosystem.

A push to develop the North, quickened by the melting of the Arctic seas, carries its own rewards and dangers for people in the region.

Soot from India has been found in the Maldive Islands and on the Tibetan Plateau; from the United States, it travels to the Arctic.

The Arctic's frozen soils and wetlands store twice as much carbon as is held in the atmosphere.

Carbon-dioxide emissions are turning the waters of the Arctic Ocean into acid at an unprecedented rate, scientists have discovered.

There is evidence that currents which bring warm water from the tropics to the Arctic, as the Gulf Stream does now, can be pushed around.

Spring in northern Canada means the migration of three million caribou across the arctic tundra.

The Arctic sea ice has retreated steadily for the past 10 years reaching record lows, or close to it, every year.

The Arctic is considered to be a part of the Atlantic.

A new study has revealed that the Arctic Ocean's permanent blanket of ice around the North Pole has thinned by more than 40% since 2004.

By 1898, the route had been lengthened to start at Bergen in the south, extending northward to Kirkenes, far above the Arctic Circle.

to almost 14, 000 feet up in the chilly Andes and Himalayas, from the Arctic Circle to the Strait of.

As it situates near the Arctic Circle, there happens polar day and night.

The right image shows the concentration of chlorine monoxide, which is concentrated over the Arctic where the ozone hole developed.

Nevertheless, most of the Arctic, especially offshore, is essentially unexplored with respect to petroleum.

The arctic fox has the warmest fur of any mamma, even warmer than the polar bear and arctic wolf.

As the melting ice allows access to the Arctic, Russia will become richer still in fossil fuels. For many, though, the prospects are grim.

In March 2011, the Earth Observatory published images of a rare, deep depletion in the ozone layer over the Arctic.

Though the features occur naturally in some parts of the Arctic, many scientists suspect that rising temperatures are causing more to form.

Three British explorers are about to embark on a survey to map the Arctic Ocean's sea-ice cover.

The vessel, the Arctic Sea, was reported to have been boarded by armed men in the Baltic.

The Arctic Ocean's sea ice is in a "death spiral" due to rising temperatures, scientists said in 2008.

The Arctic amplification happens regardless of the cause of the global climate change.

Britain's David Cameron once ventured to the Arctic to signal his embrace of a low-carbon future.

Polar bears live mainly on the Arctic pack ice, moving south in winter as the ice extends and north in summer when it melts back.

This wide and sluggish river was the Coppermine. That shining sea was the Arctic Ocean.

"It was a pirate attack, " Anatoly Serdyukov told reporters, when asked what happened when the Arctic Sea was seized in the Baltic sea.

Lives in a nice home in the Arctic, with the missus and a pack of elves.

The report also finds that the Arctic Ocean could become nearly ice-free in the summers within the next 30 to 40 years.

I had no idea how difficult it was to explore the Arctic.

The third is the U. S. government's restrictions on offshore drilling for oil and on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The amount of ice cover and its thickness are two measures of the health of the Arctic Sea.

As the Arctic warms it could release billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

Temperatures in May and June were high, leading to an early onset of melting in June over much of the Arctic.

The specific natural conditions and geographic location of the Arctic Region play an important role in the global climatic change.

The warming of the Arctic is not necessarily a threat, and in commercial terms it is an opportunity, he says.

No electoral bear-college voted for a leader who called for polar bears to move to the Arctic.

The Arctic ice cap fluctuates with the seasons, growing in the freezing winter and shrinking over the summer.

Icebergs do not come from the ice that forms the frozen surface of the Arctic oceans.

Beware of this site! Lets Send Him To The Arctic LOL!

And so Wally Herbert returned from the Arctic with a huge financial debt and sense of failure.

When snow starts to melt, thousands of birds arrive to nest, raise their young and feed on the Arctic plants.

This means that the Arctic doesn't do much to keep global temperatures cool during the winter.

Many oceanographic surveys have already discovered plumes of methane rising from the ocean floor, particularly in the Arctic, Elliott notes.

The Arctic Ocean is important as shortest air route between the Pacific coast of North America and Europe overflies it.

The name Antarctica came from Aristotle, who called the arctic north "Arktos" after "the bear" , the constellation it lay under.

Some are blaming this huge chunk of ice on global warming, while others say such breaks in the Arctic ice are a normal occurrence.

The major ones are: Eskimos in the far north is the Aleuts, Eskimos live mostly in Alaska to Greenland by the Arctic coast of North America.

They also deal a significant blow to the government's credibility in supporting the oil industry's fervent desire to drill in the Arctic.

Conroy's hypothesized link between dust levels and the Arctic Oscillation "probably warrants more investigation, " Thompson says.

Each fall, in a remote part of Norway some 250 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, a watery pilgrimage is underway.

Together they prevented Cairn's reckless deep sea oil drilling here in the Arctic for a total of five days.

The Arctic is a mysterious far away place. A voyage to Arctic is filled with sweat and tears, sometimes claiming lives, even human lives.

Our next job is to give similar support to the Arctic ozone hole, but Mother Earth regards these as mere minor fixes.

The Arctic Desert is one of the most deserted landscapes on the Earth.

The continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice is expected, with the Arctic region being particularly affected.

Glyph of the Arctic Wolf - You appears as an arctic wolf when using your Ghost Wolf spell.

The intact carcass of the prehistoric animal WAS prevented from putrefying by the arctic cold.

Russian investigators have portrayed their three weeks on board the Arctic Sea as a tense hostage drama.

So as southern Canada looks with new interest at the Arctic, it finds that northerners are becoming increasingly assertive.

Sea ice covers the Arctic Sea, occupying 7% of the surface of the world's oceans.

When the Arctic spring begins in April, the sun and ice begin their yearly dance.

Moscow reportedly sees the potential of minerals in its slice of the Arctic sector approaching $2 trillion.

From outer space to the arctic, foods for extremes really are helping people boldly go where no one has gone before.

Scientists have been exploring the Arctic wildness for decades and have already made considerable achievements.

As the Arctic air warms, it raises the altitude of discrete areas of high pressure, which can then alter wind patterns.

The Arctic is reckoned to hold around 15% of the world's undiscovered oil reserves and 30% of those of natural gas.

The explorer gave an exciting relation of his adventures in the Arctic.

Kapkov is a close ally (he served as a member of Parliament for the Arctic region of Chukotka while Abramovich was governor).

sea ice covers the arctic sea , occupying 7 % of the surface of the world ' s oceans.

Upon surfacing, the explorers declared that the feat had strengthened Moscow's claims to nearly half the Arctic seabed.

Greenland. Located at the Arctic Circle, Greenland is covered by a permanent landscape of ice.

But they won only a temporary ban on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve.

However, "I would say that it is important to avoid antagonistic language with regard to the Arctic, " she added.

Another is at he Labrador Current - cold water coming down from the Arctic.

Troppo can hardly apply one degree south of the Arctic Circle, but if its northern equivalent is to go polar, then evidently I have.

But that basic information is key to helping biologists figure out how walruses are coping with the dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean.