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Typically, sometime in March every year at the end of the long Arctic winter, the maximum of Arctic sea ice extent is reached. Slowly through spring, then accelerating through summer, most of that ...
Sailing in winter above the Arctic Circle isn’t for the faint of heart. This expedition heads north through freezing waters to one of the most extreme destinations on the planet—the world’s ...
Dancers perform during the opening ceremonies of the 2023 Arctic Winter Games in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, Sunday Jan. 29, 2023. (Photo by Brodie Evans / AWG) ...
Now an Arctic Winter Games coach, he's a role model for young athletes in traditional sports – including Nick Hanson, an Iñupiaq from the village of Unalakleet on the Norton Sound of the Bering ...
Nor'easters. Blizzards. Arctic outbreaks. The dreaded polar vortex. Winter's arsenal of misery is on its way, ready or not. And against this backdrop of winter's imminent arrival comes a new study ...
The Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) — the U.S. Army’s newest combat training center (CTC) — is how the U ...
For several months in winter, the Arctic is in perpetual darkness, or polar night. "It's really a black and white world, where you see some gray shades of things.
Every winter in the high Arctic, for example, the sun, hidden by the tilt of the Earth, vanishes for months. Meters of snow blanket the sea ice and block incoming light, ...
An arctic winter front has delivered snow and bone-chilling temperatures to North Texas (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) 8:22 a.m. Friday: The grid holds.
A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...
Point Lay, Alaska, epitomizes the extreme Arctic. Winter on the Northwest Alaska coast is marked by unrelenting winds. Windchills routinely reach 75 degrees below zero. Whiteout conditions restrict ...
Nor'easters. Blizzards. Arctic outbreaks. The dreaded polar vortex. Winter's arsenal of misery is on its way, ready or not. And against this backdrop of winter's imminent arrival comes a new study ...