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Join NASA’s Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission
This photoset is a glimpse into life as an ice watcher 鈥� flying long missions over frozen polar terrain to keep tabs on the warming world
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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs
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Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe
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Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe
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A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas
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Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers
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Polar bears waste lots of their energy and it could be a problem
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Polar bear attacks on people set to rise as climate changes
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Water enters the Doomsday vault which is now under repair
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Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater
A project off Greenland will tag whales with sensors to measure sea temperatures and ice melt in hard-to-reach places, improving predictions of sea-level rise
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Polar bears shift from seals to bird eggs as Arctic ice melts
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Arctic oil and gas must remain off limits for good, Trump
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A year on thin ice: Four seasons in a radically changed Arctic
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Weather and climate extremes continue to set new records
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