Articles
Unusual Summer Storm Blasts the Arctic
A rare summer storm blasted the Arctic this week, beginning off the coast of Alaska, and moving over much of the Arctic Sea for several days before dissipating...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Youthful Arctic Adventure Journal to be Published
Seven years before he started to write about a detective named Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle embarked on a trip at sea that would change his life and...
Artist Renders Giant 'Melting Vitruvian Man' on Arctic Ice
Let's face it: all Arctic ice looks about the same. Cold, and white, and deserted. But now, there's one piece to watch. John Quigley, an artist who specializes...
The Great Arctic Solar Mystery: Why Did Sunlight Return to Greenland Two Days Early?
Forget what the groundhog says, the winter may have ended two days early in Greenland. (via Huffington Post) Residents of Ilulissat reported seeing the sun on...
Probing the Martian Arctic
There's plenty to criticize about NASA--but not when it comes to the study of Mars. Over the past decade, the agency has sent half a dozen or so probes to...
Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Arctic Fashion Show
A little-known Canadian magazine, the Hudson's Bay Company's Beaver (circ. 15,000), went far afield last week for a scoop: the first Eskimo fashion show. It...
Medicine: Arctic Nights
Many scientists accept the theory that sunlight influences conception and hence that Eskimos are sterile during the long Arctic nights. In last week's Science,...
World Battlefronts: AT SEA: Arctic Heat
"Hottest thing on seven seas" is the Arctic supply route to Russia, said a British seaman named Edward S. Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying...
CANADA: Atoms for the Arctic
Long before Canada's Prime Minister found a symbol of the nation's undeveloped wealth and might in the frozen north, mineral hunters and military men sought...
Science: Ice-Free Arctic?
The Arctic icecap, covering some 3,000,000 square miles from Greenland to Northeastern Siberia, is the source of cold winds and ocean currents that affect the...
CANADA: Arctic Warning
Men and materials moved north by air last week to launch the biggest arctic defense project the U.S. and Canada have yet undertaken: construction of the...
Foreign News: Canadian Arctic
In the House of Commons at Ottawa, Minister of the Interior Charles Stewart introduced a bill (subsequently passed) to require aliens entering the hinterland...
THE ARCTIC: Little Giants
As part of the largest display of peacetime might the 15-nation alliance has ever staged, NATO this week will hold naval maneuvers west of Norway. Last week,...
World Battlefronts: Arctic Action
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last...
Arctic Radio
For several weeks no receiving station in North America was able to pick up messages from Donald Mix, radio operator of the Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B...
Transport: North to the Arctic
Last week Pan American started survey nights for a regular service from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, last remaining zig in a zigzag line of connecting air routes...
Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Out of the Arctic
The U.S. Army took another step in retreat from Canada's subArctic. To Winnipeg from Churchill, Manitoba's port on Hudson Bay, chugged a trainload of some 200...
Books: The Friendly Arctic
BLACK SUNLIGHTEarl Rossman Oxford University Press ($1.75). With so many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the icy wastes of the...
Arctic States Open Council to China, India, SKorea
(KIRUNA, Sweden) — Arctic states agreed Wednesday to let nations that are located nowhere near the Earth's north to become observers to their diplomatic council,...
Studies of the Past Show an Ice-Free Arctic Could Be in Our Future
Human civilization didn't exist the last time that carbon levels in the atmosphere were as high as they are now. As a new study shows, temperatures were much...
