Best Floating Holiday Light Show, N... Nov 21, 2009
The best view of the largest on-the-water holiday light show in the U.S. is from the Journey to the North Pole Cruises, leaving nightly from the resort, November 27 through December 31. Santa and Mrs. Claus greet cruise-goers, who enjoy the animated holiday displays colored with dazzling lights. (Suite101.com)
Santa Goes Digital: AT&T Connects Families With Holiday Wishes and Fun From the North Pole Via Texting and U-verse TV Nov 21, 2009
Santa Goes Digital: AT&T Connects Families With Holiday Wishes and Fun From the North Pole Via Texting and U-verse TV - Yahoo ... Santa Goes Digital: AT&T Connects Families With Holiday Wishes and Fun From the North Pole Via Texting and U-verse TV ... DALLAS, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Good little boys and girls across the country can text their holiday wish-list to Santa and track Santa's sleigh journey faster than ever this year, thanks to the bearded man in red and some of his helpers,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Stormier Arctic Predicted as Ice Melts Oct 16, 2009
For one thing, melting ice could lead to stormier seas and skies around the North Pole, according to a recent, separate study ... The storm researchers used an atmospheric model to predict changes in Arctic weather as the North Pole's summer sea ice disappears. (National Geographic)
VIDEO: Arctic Ice Mostly Gone in Ten Years? Oct 16, 2009
October 15, 2009 Data released this week by researchers who spent three months this spring measuring ice on the Arctic Ocean suggests that the North Pole could be largely open sea in summer within a decade and ice free by 2029 ... Data released this week by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months this spring shows the North Pole will be an open sea during the summer months within 20 years ... The Catlin Arctic Survey team, led by explorer Pen Hadow, measured the... (National Geographic)
Mutiny and mystery on the high seas Oct 11, 2009
Of the possible routes - across the North Pole; through the waters north of Russia and into the Northwest Pacific; or through the interior of North America - it was Hudson alone on four major voyages from 1607 to 1610, who pursued all three. A married Londoner with three sons, he sailed everywhere, including on Aug. 2, 1609 to the outer shore of Cape Cod. (Boston Globe)
Oct. 1 Around Town briefs Oct 3, 2009
The day will conclude with a kid friendly meal at the North Pole with a visit from Santa. If interested in demonstration, contact Anne Lee at 978-486-4075 or email: charlieandannelee@gmail. (Littleton Independent, MA)
Autumnal Equinox 2009: Facts on the First Day of Fall Sep 23, 2009
On the Northern Hemisphere's autumnal equinox day, a person at the North Pole would see the sun skimming across the horizon, signaling the start of six months of darkness. On the same day, a person at the South Pole would also see the sun skim the horizon, beginning six months of uninterrupted daylight. (National Geographic)
Jupiter Auroras Fed by Largest Moon's Magnetic "Bubble" Sep 18, 2009
Above, sets of pictures show auroral footprints moving across Jupiter's north pole as seen in ultraviolet Hubble Space Telescope pictures taken in March 2007 (blue) and April 2005 (red). Using thousands of such Hubble pictures, researchers with the University of Li. (National Geographic)
Arctic sea ice melt 3rd-biggest on record Sep 18, 2009
North America is at the left, and the black cross indicates the geographic North Pole. WASHINGTON (AP) The summer melt of sea ice was not quite as bad this year as the last two years. (USA Today -- Tech)
Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Attracts Explorers Aug 1, 2009
It may lack the allure of the North Pole or Mount Everest, but a Pacific Ocean trash dump twice the size of is this summer's hot destination for explorers. The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, situated in remote waters between and , is created by currents that pick up millions of tons of the world's discarded plastic. (National Geographic)
"Diamond Dust" Snow Falls Nightly on Mars Jul 3, 2009
Every night during 's winter, water-ice crystals fall from high, thin clouds over the north pole, new data from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander have revealed. The clouds resemble cirrus clouds on Earth, noted lead study author James Whiteway, an atmospheric physicist at York University in Toronto. (National Geographic)
New head of U.S. Pacific Command named May 28, 2009
The U.S. Pacific Command, based at Camp H.M. Smith on Oahu, is the largest of the nation s military commands, with 250,000 personnel and a geographic area stretching from the West Coast of the United States to the western boarder of India, and from Antarctica to the North Pole. The commander also oversees the four component commands the Pacific Fleet, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces, the U.S. Army Pacific and the U.S. Marine Forces Pacific, all headquartered in Hawaii. (Pacific Business News, HI)
Giant Atmospheric Crashes Detected via Auroras May 27, 2009
The breakthrough comes courtesy of a new radar system called the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar, recently installed near the North Pole in Alaska and Canada. There the system has a front-row seat for the aurora borealis, or northern lights. (National Geographic)
For Northern Shrimp Populations In North Atlantic, Timing Is Everything May 15, 2009
The Science study looked at stocks of Northern shrimp, also called pink shrimp, in the Gulf of Maine, on the Scotian Shelf and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Newfoundland and Labrador, on the Flemish Cap, off western Greenland and Northern Iceland, in the Barents Sea and off Svalbard, a group of islands between Norway and the North Pole. The spring phytoplankton bloom occurs at different times in different latitudes because sunlight and sea surface temperatures, the primary triggers for onset... (Science Daily)
Alaskans continue to pay a premium at the gas pump May 9, 2009
Flint Hills Resources, which operates a refinery in North Pole, declined to comment for this story. Earlier this year, the company's spokesman Jeff Cook testified in a legislative hearing that price-fixing legislation could ruin the struggling refinery's chance for survival. (Anchorage Daily News)
Top of the world! Duo made it there unassisted May 6, 2009
First Americans to reach North Pole without aid had to drag all their gear ... May 5: John Huston and Tyler Fish, the first Americans to make an unassisted ski trek to the North Pole, tell TODAYs Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford about their journey ... Theres one less great adventure left for somebody to conquer, thanks to two hardy Midwesterners who have become the first Americans to complete an unsupported trek to the North Pole. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Bipolar Disorder May 6, 2009
Traveling to the North Pole in particular makes no sense. It costs $30,000 or so for a trip breaking through flat, boring ice as far as the eye can see; skiing to the North Pole, for two, costs $150,000 ... The boats to the North Pole sell out. (Slate)
Black Man on Top of the World Apr 4, 2009
One hundred years ago today, a black man was the first to reach the North Pole, but it took a while for Matthew Henson to get the credit for that feat ... Matthew Henson's Great Exploration One hundred years ago today, a black man was the first to reach the North Pole, but it took a while for Matthew Henson to get the credit for that feat ... One hundred years ago today, a black man was the first to reach the North Pole, but it took a long time for him to get the credit for that. (Slate)
The Cold Facts Of A Melting Arctic Mar 23, 2009
Time-Lapse Pictures Show The Speed of Our Changing Climate And Its Effects On The Earth's Northern Landscape. The Jakobshavns Isbrae (Jakobshaven Ice Stream) calved these icebergs into the waters surrounding Greenland. (CBS News)
25 RANDOM THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE NOMINEES Feb 22, 2009
Taraji P. Henson's great-grandfather was an explorer who helped discover the Geographic North Pole. 4. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
* The challenges of a woman explorer Feb 21, 2009
Ann Daniels, 44, polar explorer, is about to trek 1,200km to the geographic North Pole ... Daniels has been to the North Pole six times, but the Catlin Arctic Survey is her first scientific expedition ... He says they will follow her progress by sticking pins in a map and hes looking forward to his present: snow from the North Pole. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Explorers' quest Feb 21, 2009
Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley will be using a mobile radar unit to record an accurate measurement of ice thickness as they trek more than 1,000km to the North Pole. They will be sending in regular diary entries, videos and photographs to BBC News throughout their expedition. (BBC News -- Science)
Arctic's personal greenhouse turns up the heat Feb 19, 2009
Two new studies show that the greenhouse effect is stronger above the North Pole, and that the waters of the Arctic Ocean are acting like a radiator to heat the region's atmosphere. The warming of the Arctic warming has been explained before as being due to a positive feedback loop: as , more of the dark ocean is exposed: the Arctic's reflectivity, or albedo, decreases. (New Scientist)
British explorers to measure Arctic ice in North Pole Feb 13, 2009
OTTAWA A British polar team measuring Arctic ice will arrive in Nunavut Friday to begin final preparations for a 90-day trek to the North Pole. Their expedition will be the first of its kind. (Canada.com)
Explorers set out to measure shrinking North Pole Feb 12, 2009
Published Date: 12 February 2009 A group of British explorers yesterday set off on a gruelling trek to the North Pole to carry survey the Arctic's floating ice ... They expect to reach the North Pole in late May ... Mr Hadow, a father-of-two from Hexworthy, Devon, became the first person to trek solo and without support from Canada to the Geographic North Pole in 2003. (Yorkshire Post)
Speaker expands knowledge of nature Feb 11, 2009
The next lecture on Feb. 17 features Helen Thayer, the first woman to reach the North Pole, talking that day about Walking the Gobi: Environmental Change In the Mongolian Desert. All the lectures are free and open to the public, beginning at 7 p.m. in Room 106 of the Gallagher Business Building. (Missoulian, MT)
More of this story Feb 10, 2009
She also has painted in the Arctic, where she has been to the North Pole ... De Leiris was an artist-in-residence for expeditions to the North Pole in 2006 and to Franz Josef Land, Svalbard and Greenland in 2008 ... There always were guards watching for the polar bears when the people were not on the large icebreaker that brought them to the North Pole. (Newport Daily News, RI)
Winter vacations sans skis Feb 7, 2009
The celestial illumination that shines in the night skies of regions near the North Pole is produced by charged particles that travel through space via solar wind and get trapped in the earth's magnetic field, creating glowing arcs of neon color. Tromso, Norway, known as the capital of the Arctic, is one of the best places to spot the northern lights because the city is located less than 1,500 miles from the North Pole. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Bears, Winds Fail to Derail 1st Winter Arctic Foot Trek Feb 7, 2009
The first ever winter trek to the North Pole reached its goal today despite setbacks from weather, equipment failures, and polar bears. "It's great to finally be standing on the North Pole," South African explorer Mike Horn wrote on his expedition Web site ... Horn and Norwegian explorer Brge Ousland conceived the trip because they wanted to see sunrise from the North Pole. (National Geographic)
