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NEWS ABOUT: North Pole

North Pole stories: 14 news summaries

 Post Office  
 Drops North Pole 
 Letter Program 

Cancellation infuriates Santa's helpers in Alaska town

Nov 19, 09 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Furious North Pole residents are accusing the Postal Service of playing Grinch by ending its letters to Santa program—because it attracted a sex offender. Since 1954, the Postal Service has happily sent letters to Santa to North Pole, Alaska, where volunteers respond and mail them back with a North... More »

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Alaska • North Pole • sex offenders • Santa Claus • post office • US Postal Service • North Pole, Alaska • letters to Santa




 Acid Ocean 
 Will Dissolve 
 Sea Creatures' Shells 

Researchers uncover another devastating impact of global warming

Oct 5, 09 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Waters around the North Pole are absorbing so much carbon dioxide that acid in the ocean will soon begin dissolving sea creatures' shells, scientists warn. By 2018 10% of the Arctic Ocean will be corrosive, spelling potential disaster for the food chain as crustaceans begin to die off, reports the... More »

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carbon dioxide • global warming • ocean • North Pole • sea • Arctic Ocean • crustacean • sea creatures

(Newser) - Canada and the US are letting their Arctic rivalry thaw long enough to launch an exploration mission, the Globe & Mail reports. A pair of icebreakers—one from each country—will set off next week into uncharted waters, working in tandem to clear a path and map North America's... More »

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Canada • United States • North Pole • Arctic • Arctic race • Arctic Sea • icebreaker

 Polar Meltdown
 Threatened
 This Summer 

North Pole may be ice free for the first time in human history

Jun 27, 08 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The North Pole may become free of ice this summer for the first time in human history. Thick Arctic sea ice that normally covers the polar region has been replaced by ice that formed only in the last year and is susceptible to seasonal melting, reports the Independent. It's... More »

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North Pole • University of Washington • polar ice caps • National Snow and Ice Data Center • Arctic sea ice • Arctic Ocean • Goddard Space Flight Center

'Doomsday' Seed Vault to Open

Norwegian project will house all known crop species

Feb 25, 08 3:57 PM CST
(Newser) - The North Pole is no Fertile Crescent, but it will house collections of the world's crop seeds in a doomsday vault that will open tomorrow, AFP reports. The vault, built on Norwegian territory, contains three cold chambers that can hold a total of 4.5 million seed samples—twice the... More »

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global warming • North Pole • Arctic • Norway • biodiversity • seed vault • vault • Svalbard Global Seed Vault • seeds • seed bank

Russia Relaunches
Cold War
Patrols

Pointed message
to US from Putin

Aug 18, 07 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a resumption of some of the tension reminiscent of the Cold War and a message to the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin has relaunched long-range Russian bomber patrols after a 15-year hiatus. Fourteen bombers took off yesterday just days after Russian jets buzzed the skies off Guam and began... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • State Department • North Pole • Cold War • Guam • bomber patrol • Sean McCormack

US Expedition Heads to Arctic

Expedition joins scramble to lay claim to the Arctic

Aug 14, 07 3:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Diving into the international scramble to grab parts of the Arctic, a US Coast Guard cutter is voyaging north this week to determine if any of the underwater territory can be claimed for America. The four-week expedition, which starts Friday, will use sonar technology to map the northern Chukchi Cap,... More »

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Russia • Canada • United States • North Pole • Arctic • Coast Guard • treaty • Chukchi Cap

Danes Join Scramble for Arctic

Denmark to launch expedition to Arctic to defend territorial claims

Aug 11, 07 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Danish expedition is set to head for the Arctic tomorrow, joining the scramble to claim polar territories. A team of 40 scientists and massive icebreakers are heading north to prove that a 2,000-kilometer underwater mountain range stretching to the pole is an extension of Greenland, and accordingly belongs... More »

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Russia • United Nations • global warming • Canada • North Pole • Arctic • Greenland • Denmark • Stephen Harper • Arctic race

Reuters Posts 'Titanic' Frame in Arctic Gaffe

Agency pinched movie still for North Pole report

Aug 10, 07 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Reuters was caught in another photo pas today, when it revealed pics used in a report on Russia's flag-planting at the North Pole last week were actually lifted frames from the 1997 blockbuster Titanic. An image captioned with descriptions of Russian submersibles on an Arctic seabed was actually a still... More »

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Russia • James Cameron • Reuters • North Pole • photograph • picture • Finland • Titanic • flag

Canada Vows to Defend Pole

New patrol vessels
to venture out as
Arctic tensions
escalate with Russia

Aug 10, 07 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Russia presses claims to the North Pole, Canada is stepping up its defense of its Arctic territory and will no longer take its sovereignty "too lighty," PM Stephen Harper declared yesterday during an Arctic tour. Canada is building six patrol vessels to guard the icy territory where... More »

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Russia • Canada • North Pole • Arctic • natural resources • Stephen Harper • patrol vessels • territory

Sub Crew Plants Russian Flag

Expedition reaches North Pole seabed
in quest to get jump
on turf battle

Aug 2, 07 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Russian expedition reached the North Pole today and symbolically called dibs on the Arctic in the race to secure the oil-rich territory. Explorers sank a titanium Russian flag into what the team leader called the "yellowish mud" of the sea floor 3 miles deep, which a spokesman likened... More »

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Russia • energy • oil • global warming • North Pole • Arctic • Arctic oil

Look Out, Santa: Russia Claims North Pole

Rich oil and gas reserves lie beneath ownership dispute

Aug 1, 07 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russian ships will arrive at the North Pole today as part of Moscow's effort to claim a 1,240-mile area of the Arctic—and with it, more than $2 trillion in oil and gas reserves. The Telegraph reports that the fleet will deposit a Russian flag at the bottom of... More »

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climate change • Russia • oil • Canada • Vladimir Putin • North Pole • Arctic • Denmark • sovereignty • Arctic oil

Russians Advance on North Pole

With eye on energy-rich seabed, submarines make test dive

Jul 29, 07 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a race to claim rich natural resources under the North Pole, two Russian submarines successfully dove several thousand feet in Russia's northern territorial waters today, Reuters reported. Though US and Russian subs have long plied the waters under the pole, none has reached the seabed there, at a depth... More »

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Russia • Canada • United States • North Pole • Arctic • Norway • Denmark • natural resources

Russia Stakes Claim to Oil-Rich Arctic Territory

Kremlin claims underwater shelf links huge chunk to Russia

Jun 28, 07 5:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia has claimed a massive, oil-rich chunk of the Arctic, despite international laws that block ownership of the territory. The Kremlin based its move on scientists' insistence that an underwater shelf links Russia to 460,000 square miles of the North Pole, which contains 10 billion tons of oil and... More »

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Russia • United Nations • oil • gas • Moscow • United States • North Pole • Arctic • underwater shelf • Arctic oil

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