National Geographic UK - 09.2019
by 2050, and develop technologies to suck huge quantities back out of the atmosphere. The challenge may be even starker. The 1.5 ...
With willows now tall enough to poke through snow, snowshoe hares can find winter food and hiding spots all the way to the Arcti ...
across, plastered with mud and moss and sit- ting in a waist-high lake surrounded by marsh. The water had been diverted from the ...
LEFT For thousands of years, Inupiat villagers along Alaska’s North Slope have hunted bowhead whales. A single whale can feed a ...
He and, eventually, Nikita fenced in wild horses and later trucked in yaks and sheep from Lake Baikal. This past spring Nikita h ...
stay substantially cooler than the ground in the surrounding area. The gap between the Zimovs’ ambitions and the reality of the ...
BY HEATHER PRINGLE UNCOVERING AN ARCTIC MYSTERY H.M.S. Terror, one of two ships from the doomed Franklin expedi- tion, was disco ...
little. The crew was young, tough, and seasoned. The ships, sheathed in iron, bristled with the latest Victorian-era technology— ...
Relics from the lost expedition include these, found in 1859 in an abandoned boat on King William Island: blue-tinted snow goggl ...
Canadian science writer Heather Pringle special- izes in archaeology. Her forthcoming book on the Vikings will be published by N ...
104 EYES ON THE ICE BY JENNIFER KINGSLEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY ESTHER HORVATH IN GREENLAND, RESEARCHERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD DOCUMENT ...
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Soldiers and researchers come together for a pig roast and game night. Competitors try to put a jousting lance through a small r ...
summer there’s so much dust from blowing winds, it coats your teeth. Station Nord also has a political purpose, which is why it’ ...
Lunch next to an iceberg on the sea ice is a hurried affair with temperatures below minus 30°F. Research- ers rehydrate freeze- ...
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are spread out as a precaution against fire. The campus is extensive enough to provide the infrastructure required to produce wo ...
Jennifer Kingsley’s last story for National Geo- graphic was about women in the Chukotka region of Russia. Esther Horvath is a G ...
TOP LEFT Research assistant Nora Fried uses a handheld IceCube, an instrument that measures the specific surface area of snow pa ...
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