Arctic Shipping

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Arctic observations may help in predicting tropical cyclones

The Siasat Daily 23 Sep 2018

Researchers have found that additional weather observations in the Arctic can help predict the track and intensity of tropical and mid-latitude cyclones more accurately, improving weather forecasting of extreme weather events ... To supplement existing weather data observations, additional observations were conducted using weather balloons released from the ship- and land-based weather stations based in the Arctic....

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Nasa launches satellite to precisely track how Earth's ice is melting

The Guardian 22 Sep 2018

The satellite, about the size of a Smart car, will point six lasers at ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica ... Since then, Nasa has used a plane to take more rudimentary measurements of ice melt for about a month per year in the Arctic and Antarctic ... With ice melt, new routes are expected to open through the Arctic, significantly reducing shipping times ... Could sprinkling sand save the Arctic's shrinking sea ice?....

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Wreckage of Dundee whaling ship, lost for 116 years, found almost untouched on icy shores

The Courier 22 Sep 2018

A Dundee whaling ship wrecked in the icy waters of the Arctic has been found after more than a century underwater. ... ....

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Is the North Pole set to become a tourism hotspot?

RTE 21 Sep 2018

Earlier this year, the London Independent carried a story on the first ship to make the journey across the Arctic from South Korea to Sabetta in northern Russia and on to Montoir in France ... Nathaniel Melia and colleagues at Reading University modelled shipping transits of the Arctic and found that European routes to Asia across northern Russia will be well established by mid-century and cutting 10 to 13 days off journey times....

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Polar bears, ice fields: New cruises across Russian Arctic bring rare adventure

Herald Mail 21 Sep 2018

BOLSHEVIK ISLAND, Russian Arctic – As vacation destinations go, Baranov Station is a bit bleak ... Operated by Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, the 155-passenger Bremen is one of the first western cruise ships to carry travelers such as Shenkin across the Northeast Passage, which connects Europe to the Far East by way of the icy Arctic seas at the top of Russia ... Silversea ship to transit Northeast Passage ... About the ship....

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LNG shipping rates spike with no respite seen through 2019

This is Money 21 Sep 2018

Rates, which broadly hovered around $30,000 to $40,000 a day from 2015 to 2017, have risen due to longer distances covered to transport LNG from new terminals in the United States and Arctic Russia, surging demand in China and a limited number of ships ... Deliveries of LNG from the Northern Russian Yamal facilities have created extra demand on ships ......

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A short history of cruises across the Northeast Passage

The Arizona Republic 21 Sep 2018

Only a handful of ships have sailed through the icy Arctic route known as the Northeast Passage with tourists. USA TODAY Cruise offers a short history of passenger sailings across the waterway, which connects Europe to the Far East ... ....

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SpaceX’s Moon Trip Is the Ultimate Artist Residency

The Atlantic 21 Sep 2018

In the United States, both federal and private organizations send artists to remote areas each year, from the frozen landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic to the parched terrain of the American desert ... For the past 10 years, the Arctic Circle has sent participants on three-week sailing expeditions in the Arctic waters near Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago. They don’t get much time alone on the ship, and that’s kind of the point....

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Military breaks out pizza MREs

The Mercury 20 Sep 2018

Now being shipped to military bases around the world, ... To qualify for MRE duty, a food item has to be able to survive years of storage in a dank ship’s hold or a sun-baked shipping container, withstand Arctic freezes and tropical monsoons, stave off assaults by insects, and remain intact through a parachute airdrop or even a free fall from 100 feet....

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The best TV shows to check out if you like ‘Game of Thrones’

The Daily Dot 20 Sep 2018

No matter whether you’re watching for the first time or are on your latest rewatch, catching up with Game of Thrones often ends with one big question (amid all of the other things we want to be answered). Are there other TV shows like Game of Thrones to tackle next? ... 1) Lost ... But the real horror and drama of The Terror (also the name of one of the crew’s ships) is often not with supernatural creatures that lurk in the arctic wasteland ... ....

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Greenland government backs Arctic HFO ban

Splash24/7 19 Sep 2018

Greenland’s Naalakkersuisut (government) has publically backed an International Maritime Organization ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil by Arctic shipping ... The prohibition must cover both navigation and transport of HFO in the Arctic.”....

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Russia’s New Commanding Role in the Arctic (Op-ed)

Moscow Times 19 Sep 2018

A new shipping corridor between Asia and Europe promises to strengthen Russia’s control over the Arctic. ....

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These Soviet nuclear-powered ships smashed tons of ice...and loads of records (PHOTOS)

Russia Beyond 18 Sep 2018

It was also the first surface ship to sail further north than Severnaya Zemlya (in 1971) ... “Lenin” was eventually turned into a museum so you can now jump aboard to experience what it was like to sail the seas on the iconic ship.‘Arktika’ (Arctic) ... However, recently there were rumors that it could be turned into a command ship for Russian Arctic military units, but this hasn’t happened....

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