ARCTIC

Facts and information about the arctic fox.

Arctic Sea hijacking from a humorous point of view describing a fictional scenario where an actor, Bruce Willis, tries to board the Arctic Sea for background research for Die Hard 5.

If you're thinking about doing one of those arctic cruises on a ship, consider you might have more opportunities soon due to the melting ice up in the northern arctic regions. Of course, that can bring on some conflicted feelings once you see the melted ice firsthand...

Should we drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife? The author takes a look at this controversial issue.

"Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it into the Transpolar Drift Stream, and then sped its flow out of the Arctic."

Due to the unprecedented and unexpected warm temperatures that have been recorded in the High Arctic during this past summer, researchers at Queens College, Canada who are working on a climate change project, have decided to completely revise their predictions.

Arctic sea ice seems to have reached its minimum for 2007 on Sept. 16 and according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder this minimum is shattering all previous lows acquired by satellite records beginning 30 years ago.

A few weeks ago, a Russian scientific team planted a flag claiming a nugget of the Arctic's thawing resources. Canada followed suit by setting up a permanent port in the Inuit-populated territory of Nunavut, a recently acquired Canadian providence. Who owns the Arctic?

NASA has begun testing on the new autonomous lunar rovers, as arctic conditions are ideal for testing. These new rovers are the first autonomous rovers to be put onto the moon by the United States.

Arctic Monkeys have released the second album that extends beyond anyone's expectations. Their sound has expanded like the first few moments after the big bang and not a single hand remains raised in speculation at the end of the record

A team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute will set on in July to search for life deep in the Arctic Ocean.

In northern Finland, snow is measured not in inches but in feet. It's a place where reindeer herds thrive and traditional Lapland costume is elfish in color and design. Have an urge to cross the Arctic Circle? Do it in Finland.

The Canadian Arctic Ayles Ice Shelf collapsed without anyone noticing until December 2006. A satellite image of the collapse was caught on August 13, 2005. What happened in 2005? How does a whole world miss a collapsing ice shelf? Look back to the events of 2005.

At it's best the, Arctic sources would deliver a combined 3 million barrels of oil per day, merely a drop in the bucket of our daily oil consumption, of 20 million barrels.

Are there some positives to come from global warming? Maybe Arctic oil could be used to help meet global energy demands. Also new shipping routes might be opened through the Arctic.

The Arctic Monkeys are a new-wave Brit band influenced by past late and greats; I wanted to capture this essence in my review.