Ms. Violet Ford (Inuit Circumpolar Conference)

A polar bear swimming in the Arctic, by Paul Nicklen.

The vanishing Arctic sea ice also affects the atmosphere.

Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis (or the southern lights), has features that are almost identical to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone.

A polar bear can swim up to 500 kilometers.

Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.

Early evidence for a geomagnetic connection comes from the statistics of auroral observations.

All these islands lie in the cold seas below the Antarctic convergence.

A polar bear wouldn't hesitate to attack a huge walrus if it were hungry.

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it a mediterranean sea or an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1948, the underwater Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean was named in his honor.

Projections are that we could lose polar bears they could become extinct in the next 50 to 100 years.

Today, a far greater Arctic tragedy is unfolding the Arctic sea ice cap is melting.

For instance, as the Arctic ice cap melts, less sunlight is reflected.

And you'll see that it leads with a shifting star field, and there's an Aurora Borealis in the background, kind of morphing with color. The color of the Aurora Borealis can be controlled using this single bar of color at the bottom, and we'll put it down here to red.

Another part is that the so called Arctic Oscillation of wind patterns over the Arctic Ocean is now in a state that it does not allow build up of old ice, but immediately flushes most ice into the North Atlantic.

These plants have a distinct trait in their pollen grains of exhibiting three colpi or grooves paralleling the polar axis.

The voyage was the culmination of four centuries of failed attempts to navigate the Northwest Passage a direct route from Europe to Asia across the Arctic Ocean and remains one of the greatest tragedies in the history of polar exploration.

This is about as good as maps get, and to reach it you've got to ski literally over the frozen crust, the floating skin of ice on the Artic Ocean.

Polar bears need ice to be able to move back and forth they're not very good swimmers and we know what's happening to the ice.

Climate Sisimiut lies within the polar climate region, belonging to the E group of the Köppen climate classification.

When in sinking air, the polar curve shows that best speed to fly depends on the rate that the air is descending.

Polar orbiting satellites pass near the North and South Poles 14 times a day.

But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.

We hear constantly about how the Arctic sea ice is disappearing faster than expected, and this is true.

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The range includes the territory of five nations Denmark (Greenland), Norway (Svalbard), Russia, the United States (Alaska) and Canada.

At the time, the polar climate was warm, but the winters were still continuously dark for three months long.

A. Andrée's scheme The second half of the 19th century has often been called the Heroic Age of polar exploration.

A boar (adult male) weighs around , while a sow (adult female) is about half that size.

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the polar bear diverged from the brown bear, Ursus arctos , roughly 150,000 years ago.

The oldest instrument still in use is No.8 located at the roof of the Norwegian Polar Institute at Ny Ålesund, Svalbard.

At Tromsø and on Svalbard, European incoherent scatter (EISCAT) radars probe the nature of the magnetosphere.

From the promotion of organic food to declarations of the polar bear s imminent demise, the media pelt us with a constant barrage of one sided warnings.

Yakutian photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva's photos of the Russian Arctic seaport of Tiksi, located in Yakutia in the area of the Lena Delta at eYakutia.

One early theory proposed for the acceleration of auroral electrons is based on an assumed static, or quasi static, electric field and a consequent uni directional potential drop.

Consider a tale that has made the covers of some of the world s biggest magazines and newspapers the plight of the polar bear.

Reduction of the area of Arctic sea ice reduces the planet's average albedo, possibly resulting in global warming in a positive feedback mechanism.

Greenland remains. Twenty eight years ago, this is what the polar ice cap the North Polar ice cap looked like at the end of the summer, at the fall equinox.

PARIS The Northern Lights was the title of a major painting exhibition in Paris a few years ago, dedicated to Scandinavian masterpieces.

The only native land mammal when humans arrived was the Arctic fox, which came to the island at the end of the ice age, walking over the frozen sea.

On 20 June 1648 (old style, 30 June new style) they departed from (most likely) Srednekolymsk and sailed down the river to the Arctic.

Electric field probes in orbit above the polar cap suggest voltages of the order of 40,000 volts, rising up to more than 200,000 volts during intense magnetic storms.

Life cycle The main spawning season of Antarctic krill is from January to March, both above the continental shelf and also in the upper region of deep sea oceanic areas.

Scientists wishing to study the interactions of the solar wind with the polar magnetic cusp near the magnetic north pole can use sounding rockets launched from Svalbard.