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A US aircraft carrier is in the frigid waters north of the Arctic Circle for the first time since the Soviet Union collapsed

Business Insider 19 Oct 2018

The America was the last US aircraft carrier to operate above the Arctic Circle until Friday, when the USS Harry S Truman and ships from its strike group sailed into the Arctic Circle for operations ahead of Trident Juncture, which will be NATO's largest military exercise in nearly 20 years ... The US Navy aircraft carrier USS America with US and NATO ships taking part in the exercise North Star 91 between August 21 and October 11, 1991....

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Adding Sensors To Every Ship Entering the Arctic Could Help Map the Uncharted Seafloor

Slashdot 18 Oct 2018

Equipping every ship that enters the Arctic with sensors could help fill critical gaps in maritime charts ... But perhaps the starkest gaps in knowledge are in the Arctic. Only 4.7 percent of the Arctic has been mapped to modern standards ... Maps are becoming more important as shipping activity increases -- both around the world and in the Arctic. In August, the Russian research ship Akademik Ioffe ran aground in Canada's Arctic....

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Letters to the Editor, Oct. 18

Toronto Sun 18 Oct 2018

Robert Smol’s article on Canada’s Arctic patrol ships (“Naval ships all sight, no fight,” Oct ... Thus Robert Smol’s article seems to twist facts to try and make a point, a point that is not relevant as the DeWolf class were never intended to be combat ships but ships that provide presence in the Arctic and off Canadian coasts....

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Overcoming challenges facing Polar Silk Road

China Daily 18 Oct 2018

Implementing China's vision of a Polar Silk Road, therefore, requires solutions for ballast water treatment in order to make Arctic entrance for Chinese industries smooth and profitable ... Meanwhile, pipelines and shipping will experience a technological revolution because of the need to utilize more distant deposits in the Arctic and apply more environmentally predictable methods of oil transportation by electric tankers....

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Having fun in freezing weather under several layers of clothes

The Star 18 Oct 2018

The first time I crossed the Arctic Circle in extremely cold weather! ... But with hopes of seeing the northern lights and other arctic adventures in mind, the cold became bearable ... Other firsts for us during this trip included trying out winter sports such as night-time nordic walking, snowboarding, snowmobiling, arctic swimming (thankfully with a thermal suit) off an icebreaker ship, and driving a husky-pulled sleigh....

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Thom Yorke releases Greenpeace single Hands Off the Antarctic

The Guardian 17 Oct 2018

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has released a new single in support of Greenpeace’s mission to protect the Antarctic Ocean from the effects of climate change, commercial fishing and human interference. The ominous instrumental electronic track is titled Hands Off the Antarctic. The video features footage shot by Greenpeace’s research ship Arctic Sunrise, and was premiered on 16 October when it was projected on to London’s Marble Arch....

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LISTEN: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke aims to help protect the Antarctic with new music

Inquirer 17 Oct 2018

The Radiohead frontman accompanies this instrumental track with black and white footage of landscapes filmed from the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise ... Yorke ... ....

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Meet the Endoterrestrials

The Atlantic 17 Oct 2018

Related Stories ... Her sunglasses were pushed back over her straight brown hair, revealing cheekbones darkened from years of working outside on ships, on tropical islands, in the high Arctic, and everywhere else her work has taken her ... Read ... In November of that year, on the back deck of a research ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, she climbed down the hatch of the Pisces-IV, a car-sized submersible, and was lowered into the sea ... ....

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Thom Yorke – “Hands Off The Antarctic”

Stereogum 16 Oct 2018

The Radiohead frontman’s new track is called “Hands Off The Antarctic,” and it comes attached to footage of the Arctic shot from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise ... ....

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Hear Thom Yorke’s Chilly New Song for Greenpeace

Rollingstone 16 Oct 2018

As his synthesizer blends blips with chilly, glacial washes of sound, a video for the song shows crisp, black-and-white footage of the continent taken from Greenpeace’s ship, Arctic Sunrise. Yorke premiered the song in London with a projection of the video on the city’s Marble Arch ... “This track is about stopping the relentless march of those heavy footsteps ... That’s why we should protect it.” ... .......

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Thom Yorke shares haunting new track ‘Hands Off The Antarctic’ in support of Earth’s largest ...

NME 16 Oct 2018

"The Antarctic is a true wilderness and what happens there affects us all. That's why we should protect it.”Thom Yorke performs live. Thom Yorke has unveiled a new track titled ‘Hands Off The Antarctic’, released in support of Greenpeace’s campaign for a vast Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary ... That’s why we should protect it.”. The video features footage captured from the Greenpeace ship, ‘Arctic Sunrise’. Thom Yorke ... ....

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SMOL: Naval ships all sight, no fight

Toronto Sun 14 Oct 2018

This is why we must fully understand what our new Arctic ships are capable of doing ... And while Canada’s Arctic ships are still a long way to being fully operational, two of Denmark’s three Arctic patrol ships have been active  off the of Greenland over the last two months. These three Danish patrol ships are only a small part of the country’s recently completed fleet modernization....

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‘Need to preserve Walruses as ice melts’

The Hindu 14 Oct 2018

Since 1981, an area more than double the size of Texas 1.58 million square km has become unavailable to Arctic marine mammals by summer’s end, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center ... More open water already has meant more ship traffic ... policy on Arctic offshore drilling. Former President Barack Obama permanently withdrew most Arctic waters ......

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