As temperatures rise, Arctic ice is retreating, making trips through the Northwest passage – from Alaska to Maine – a new summer reality. But until now, mariners navigating Arctic ice have had limited formal training. A professor at Maine Maritime Academy is working to change that.
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Q&A: Polar architect designs for extreme environments and climate change
Hugh Broughton and his UK-based team of architects just finished the space-age Halley VI for the British Antarctic Survey.
Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Will Be Gone Within Years, NASA Says
What’s left of the Larsen B shelf, two-thirds of which underwent a spectacular collapse in 2002, will disappear by the end of the decade, according to a new study.
Slideshow: Sikuliaq stops in Juneau
UAF officials roll out gangplank for public to view new research vessel devoted to polar oceanography.
Japan Says It Wants To Resume Larger Annual Whale Hunt
Japan, which earlier this year said it would scale back what it has described as “research whaling,” is signaling that it wants to go back to a larger hunt.
Singing, Stomping, Stranded Explorers Prep Antarctic Helipad
The news Tuesday morning from the stranded ship in the Antarctic is that it’s looking more and more as though icebreakers won’t be able to reach the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, so the passengers and some of the crew are preparing to be plucked off the ice by helicopter.
Lost Images Come To Life A Century After Antarctic Expedition
Conservators working to preserve artifacts from the early days of Antarctic exploration have uncovered century-old black-and-white negatives taken during Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917 expedition but never printed.
Third Icebreaker Fails To Reach Stranded Ship In Antarctic
“Bad news: Aurora couldn’t get through. Tried twice. Low visibility & heavy ice. Returning to open water. Try again tomorrow?”