Arctic sea route opens
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The Arctic's Northwest Passage has opened up fully because of melting sea ice, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia, the European Space Agency said.
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A Viking ship made from ice-cream sticks set sail across the Netherlands&#39; IJsselmeer lake on Friday and its stuntman builder hopes to cross the Atlantic later.
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Global warming is set to accelerate in the Arctic and bring drastic change for people and wildlife in coming decades, according to a draft report that has opened cracks among nations in the region about how to slow the thaw.
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Canada has said it will build two military facilities in the Arctic. Are we witnessing a scramble for resources in the region?
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Preliminary tests on soil samples gathered by a Russian scientific expedition indicate that a vast mountain range under the Arctic Ocean is part of Russia's continental shelf, a government ministry said Thursday.
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The world's longest underwater pipeline is due to begin feeding gas from Norway to the UK.
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New ferry operator RoRo2 Stockholm. com has signed a contract with K-Line European Sea Highway Service (Kess) to transport finished vehicles from northern Germany to Sweden.
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A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.
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The Airbus A380 started a global circumnavigation which will take in the South and North Poles on the last of a series of test flights before it applies for its air safety certificate.
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PARIS - Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.
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On a cloudy day in  the Chukchi Sea near Alaska's northwestern coast, two marine  biologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological  Institute pulled up a small crab that could be proof the Arctic  is growing warmer.
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Last summer's big retreat of Arctic Ocean ice allowed oceanographers to chart new regions -- and find more potential United States real estate.
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An international team of scientists says the Arctic is warming much more rapidly than previously known because of the burning of fossil fuels around the world.
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Scientists present one of the most dramatic forecasts for the disappearance of Arctic summer sea-ice.
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Canada announced plans Monday to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage &#151; a potentially oil-rich region the United States says is international territory.
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Russian geologists say they have data that would support a claim to a huge energy-rich area in the Arctic.
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Two polar explorers are to embark on a 4,300km trek across the Arctic to collect data and highlight climate change.