arctic
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A Massive Lake Beneath Greenland’s Glaciers Has Collapsed
Under Greenland’s frozen surface is a vast network of channels, crevasses, and basins — its “glacial plumbing system”. A few years ago, the water suddenly disappeared from a subglacial lake, which then collapsed into a funny silhouette that NASA likens to a “mitten”, but I think looks more like a waving Yeti.
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Ship Lost In The Arctic 160 Years Ago Found Thanks To Climate Change
In 1845, the explorer John Franklin set off to sail the fabled Northwest Passage, an Arctic sea route that would hypothetically connect the Atlantic and the Pacific. He never returned. His ship was lost to the ice. But now, thanks to the obsession of Canada’s prime minister, an expedition has located one of Franklin’s two…
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World’s Northernmost Big City Is A Brutal Mosaic Of Colour And Pollution
Welcome to Norilsk, Russia. With 175,365 citizens, it’s the northernmost big city in the world. The architecture is brutal, it’s highly polluted, and it’s freezing cold all year round. Yet its geometric and colourful shapes make it an oddly pleasing sight — at least as captured from the air by photographer Slava Stepanov.
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How Will Search And Rescue Work If A Plane Goes Down In The Arctic?
It has been nearly a month since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar, and its ultimate whereabouts remain unclear. The complex international effort of searching for the plane in a remote stretch of the South Indian Ocean raises the question of what would happen if a plane were to go down in the Arctic:…