LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — It was early April, and while the midnight sun had not yet arrived on the remote archipelago…
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Sometimes history speaks in rhyme. On March 5, 1922, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was buried in a hillside cemetery…
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OTTAWA — No matter how enjoyable at first, whooshing round and round the constrained oval of an ice rink can…
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BEIJING — Ice might just seem to be ice. But not in curling. The frozen sheets created for elite competitions…
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“Look for a small, slightly yellow-colored speck on the white sea ice,” says Kristin Laidre, principal scientist at the University…
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The world’s glaciers may contain less water than previously believed, a new study has found, suggesting that freshwater supplies could…
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A century after Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank in the waters of Antarctica, resulting in one of the greatest survival…
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Aerial photographs from the 1930s were used as the basis for a digital reconstruction of the Bloomstrandbreen glacier.Credit...Norwegian Polar ...
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Aerial photographs from the 1930s were used as the basis for a digital reconstruction of the Bloomstrandbreen glacier.Credit...Norwegian Polar ...
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Mesmerized, I would lean against the railing at the front of the ship, alone, for hours on end. Over the…
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