Ilan Manouach, page from "Shapereader: Arctic Circle" (2016)Arctic Circle, a 57-page graphic novel, is the first narrative work designed with the Shapereader system.
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At 69° N, Tromsø is well into the Arctic Circle.
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They're also burning throughout the Arctic Circle, particularly in Siberia.
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Somehow, they successfully trek to a shelter in Arctic Circle.
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How many charging stations are there above the Arctic Circle?
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Pilots in the Arctic Circle now describe the same thing.
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The fjord is 250 km north of the Arctic Circle.
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Nearly 700 readers responded from areas all around the Arctic Circle.
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Geographically, China is nowhere near the Arctic Circle, which puts the Asian powerhouse at a major political disadvantage compared to eight countries that make up the Arctic Council, all of whom have territory inside the Arctic Circle.
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It sits on permafrost about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Above the Arctic Circle, during the summer, there's 2500 hours of daylight.
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Above the Arctic Circle, during the summer, there's 24 hours of daylight.
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Those looking for spring might find it in Russia near the Arctic Circle.
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Entire regions of the Arctic Circle once impassable now are accessible and exploitable.
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In the Arctic Circle, there were crocodiles, palm trees, and sand tiger sharks.
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It means officially crossing into the arctic circle, which we're pretty psyched about.
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That heat helped fuel wildfires, with several igniting north of the Arctic Circle.
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New seismic activity indicates an underground nuclear explosion somewhere near the Arctic Circle.
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You don't have to trek all the way up to the Arctic Circle.
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Temperatures topped 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) even in the Arctic Circle in northern Europe.
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The sun won't even rise there today because it is above the Arctic Circle.
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During the Paleocene it was so warm that crocodiles swam above the Arctic Circle.
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Cell service is spotty at best a couple hundred miles from the Arctic Circle.
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In the Arctic Circle, Greenland remains under Denmark's control despite having its own government.
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The U.S. navy is holding a five-week training exercise in the Arctic Circle.
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Their fleet of nuclear-armed submarines is based in Murmansk, above the Arctic Circle.
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He lives in Karasjok in northern Norway, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Record highs on the edge of the Sahara and parts of the Arctic Circle.
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Like, really extensively: to the Arctic Circle, to the Sea of Cortez, to Yap.
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Great Bear Lake straddles the Arctic Circle in the remote Northwest Territories of Canada.
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Norilsk, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is a place of brutal extremes.
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It opens with two people trapped in a mining facility somewhere in the Arctic Circle.
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The return of significant daylight in February is a big occasion for Arctic Circle inhabitants.
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Between searches for the Northern Lights you'll find fascinating cultures everywhere in the Arctic Circle.
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He is a Scot living in the Arctic Circle on a coastal farm in Norway.
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He's currently hunting for mountain goats in the northern Yukon, just outside the Arctic Circle.
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FEARGHAS O'BEARA Brussels The Arctic Circle runs across the runway at Rovaniemi airport in Finland.
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Fairbanks, Alaska, America's northernmost metropolitan area, is just 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
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The fires have been burning across the Arctic Circle in Siberia and Alaska for weeks.
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For nearly 50 straight days, wildfire activity in the Arctic Circle was well above average.
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Unusual wildfires have lit up the lands of the midnight sun above the Arctic Circle.
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Wood frogs are the only frogs that inhabit the cold regions above the Arctic Circle.
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To many people, polar bears, which inhabit the Arctic Circle, are already pretty far up.
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I don't think I am the only person near the Arctic Circle who does this.
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Recent installments of "Arctic Circle" have depicted the penguins coping with social media and dating.
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Just north of the Arctic Circle, the resort sits on 1,200 acres in Finnish Lapland.
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Similarly, extreme heat helped drive major wildfires as far north as the Arctic circle last year.
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If you want to see the Northern Lights this winter, head north to the Arctic Circle.
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Oh, and that happens to take place 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle in Bardufoss, Norway.
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But the joy-seekers aren't taking a trip to the Arctic Circle — they're going to Florida.
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Wildfires are ravaging parts of the Arctic Circle, and they're big enough to see from space.
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That's particularly important given that this launch site is 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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When the civil-aviation authority moved to the Arctic Circle, almost all its flight inspectors quit.
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A polar bear leaps over water on sea ice in Canada, north of the Arctic Circle.
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Banak sits atop northern Europe, over 350 miles above the bottom edge of the Arctic Circle.
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This year, however, the region is on fire, as are large parts of the Arctic Circle.
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For example, the temperature in the Arctic Circle soared above freezing for one day in 2016.
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And it's reason to take that trip to the Arctic Circle that you've long fantasized about.
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Until 2002, the seas around the Arctic Circle remained largely frozen even during the late summer.
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Two degrees north of the Arctic Circle, in the town of Murmansk, the Russian railway ceases.
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At other times, Iceland's position close to the Arctic Circle will mean 24 hours of daylight.
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Northern Lapland is above the Arctic Circle, and yet it's known in part for its wildlife.
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"The mortalities were mostly in northern Norway, so you're heading towards the Arctic Circle," he said.
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Record temperatures were also logged on the edge of the Sahara and above the Arctic Circle.
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"The number and intensity of wildfires in the Arctic Circle is unusual and unprecedented," Parrington said.
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The fleet also includes one medium icebreaker, but no deep-water port within the Arctic Circle.
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Nunavut, the Native nation above the Arctic Circle, begins construction of forty-foot-high steel wall.
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Others, however, floated over 17,000 miles, traveling the Arctic Circle and making landfall in Britain in 2007.
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Plenty of evidence points to a food problem in the whales' summering grounds in the Arctic Circle.
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The pair, still settling into their new partnership, are dispatched to an outpost above the Arctic Circle.
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Mr Ovchinnikov, also 36, grew up in a family of journalists in Syktyvkar, near the Arctic Circle.
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"The number and intensity of wildfires in the Arctic Circle is unusual and unprecedented," Parrington told CNN.
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If Inuit and Aleut ring a bell, they're up in the Arctic Circle where IGLOOS get built.
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Charman said the findings on Antarctica mirrored other studies of the Arctic Circle at the North Pole.
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One hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies the Swedish mining town of Kiruna, population 20,000.
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In February 2016, 36 miners and rescue workers died in a coal mine above the Arctic circle.
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And, for once, an unusual story from the Arctic Circle had nothing to do with climate change.
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In addition to the blazes in the West, forest fires raged in Sweden above the Arctic Circle.
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A scorching heat wave has swept across Scandinavia, breaking all-time heat records into the Arctic Circle.
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The bomber was on "an extended duration sortie over the Arctic Circle," US Air Forces Europe said.
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The sweltering temperatures have also contributed to wildfires as far north as the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
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Alaska's proximity to the Arctic Circle and its long coastline make it especially susceptible to climate change.
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This allows "tongues" of frigid air to reach south, and warm pockets to approach the Arctic Circle.
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When she has tackled politics in "Arctic Circle," the response on message boards would sometimes get heated.
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A little over 90 miles from the Arctic Circle sits the coal-mining town of Vorkuta, Russia.
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Wildfires raced not only through California but also Greece and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
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"The amount of CO103 emitted from Arctic Circle fires in June 210 is larger than all of the CO228 released from Arctic Circle fires in the same month from 22019 through to 2018 put together," Thomas Smith, a geography professor at the London School of Economics, told Motherboard.
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The best time to visit the Arctic Circle area is between the week before and after February 15.
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But on October 16, the small city north of the Arctic Circle took on a new cosmic role.
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So in 2013, the Tara Oceans circumpolar expedition zigged and zagged around the Arctic Circle, sampling for plastic.
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Okay, the running part is probably not as traditional, but we'd never been to the Arctic circle before!
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With little infrastructure around Lofoten, which lies within the Arctic Circle, exploiting the reserves would require vast investment.
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Unusually hot weather has also cooked the Arctic, contributing to wildfires in Greenland north of the Arctic circle.
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This little Inupiat village -- about 893 miles from the Arctic Circle -- would gladly take a dose of both.
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While in Finland, the group stayed at the Arctic TreeHouse, a unique hotel located inside the Arctic Circle.
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By the arctic circle, the earliest sunset and the winter solstice happen on or around the same day.
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Also known as the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis is the display of dancing lights near the Arctic Circle.
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Thule Air Base is 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle and midway between New York and Moscow.
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The blast occurred on an offshore platform in the region of Arkhangelsk near the Arctic circle, Rosatom said.
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China's increasing involvement in the Arctic Circle has also coincided with a growing lack of interest from Washington.
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Mirny is a diamond mining town in Siberia, Russia, about 280 miles (450 kilometers) from the Arctic Circle.
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China has begun importing natural gas from just above the Arctic circle at Russia's Yamal plant, reports CGTN.
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The city, a nickel-mining center with a population of about 175,000, is just inside the Arctic Circle.
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Temperatures in Finland, part of which lies within the Arctic Circle, can drop below minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Only the Arctic Circle and a few islands off the coast of Turkey suffer comparable male-female imbalances.
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In his direction of Jan's exodus, Harald Zwart lingers on the Arctic Circle location of this hero's ordeal.
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But the Eurothriller clichés in "Arctic Circle" are stitched together in even more haphazard and sometimes nonsensical fashion.
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Boreal forests ring the globe just under the Arctic Circle, stretching across Canada, Alaska, Siberia and Northern Europe.
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Boreal forests ring the globe just under the Arctic Circle, stretching across Alaska, Canada, Siberia and northern Europe.
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Boreal forests ring the globe just under the Arctic Circle, stretching across Canada, Alaska, Siberia and northern Europe.
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Situated 150 miles into the Arctic Circle, Abisko is practically the farthest north you can get in Europe.
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As the photo shows, this nighttime launch was quite spectacular thanks to the location, close to the Arctic Circle.
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Rockets can also take a direct path from the tip of the Scottish peninsula to above the Arctic Circle.
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The film was shot in northern Finland, 25 miles south of the Arctic circle and 25 miles from Russia.
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The committee represents Gwich'in Athabascans, First Nations people who live largely above the Arctic Circle in Alaska and Canada.
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Instead, Jesper is given a mission: to revivify the post office of Smeerensburg, an island above the Arctic Circle.
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Nogovitsyn lives in Mirny, a diamond-mining town in Siberia about 280 miles (450 kilometers) from the Arctic Circle.
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Located atop a volcano just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, Iceland is nothing short of unique.
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ALASKA: On June 27, 1915, 100-degree-Fahrenheit heat swept through Fort Yukon, located north of the Arctic Circle.
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Truman became the first carrier in nearly three decades to operate in the Arctic Circle during a 2018 deployment.
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Vast forests surround Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, which lies about 250 miles from the Arctic Circle.
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Mirny is a Russian town located deep in northeastern Siberia, about 280 miles (450 kilometers) from the Arctic Circle.
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They mark a path that begins more than 350 miles inside the Arctic Circle, in the cove called Toftefjord.
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Stinessen Arkitektur was inspired by Manshausen Island's Arctic Circle, as the cabins are arranged around water on the property.
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Talks are also underway for state-owned China Telecom to help build fiber-optic links in the Arctic Circle.
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Nome lies south of the Arctic Circle, on the edge of the Seward Peninsula along the northern Bering Sea.
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For reasons that seem silly now, I passed up eclipse excursions bound for Aruba, Africa and the Arctic Circle.
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To maintain the purity of the breed, no other type of dog is allowed north of the Arctic Circle.
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Just north of the Arctic Circle, the resort sits on 1,200 acres and features 65 igloos to sleep in.
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) tracked more than 100 fires in the Arctic Circle in the summer of 2019.
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Punin himself, accused of "anti-Soviet activity", was to die, starving, in a desolate gulag north of the Arctic Circle.
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MO I RANA, just south of the Arctic Circle in Norway's Helgeland district, has always been a place of industry.
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A remote town in the Arctic Circle known for caribou, northern lights and frigid winters feels like Canada's last frontier.
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Here on Earth, this gives rise to the arctic circle and its "midnight sun," which occurs during the prolonged winter.
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It's the earliest recorded snowmelt ever seen in the Arctic Circle observatory—and researchers stationed there are, unsurprisingly, pretty spooked.
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Not only is this a first for the Arctic Circle station, it beats the previous record by a substantial margin.
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Kirkenes lies well above the Arctic Circle, about 350 km (217 miles) from the northernmost parts of Finland's railway network.
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In northern Europe, Sweden was still under threat from wildfires, which in recent weeks have extended into the Arctic Circle.
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Relatively warm weather inside the Arctic Circle ought to be highly unusual for February; increasingly, that is not the case.
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Karlsson had expected few corn plants to survive in Fairbanks - less than 22016 miles (22020 kilometers) from the Arctic Circle.
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In the first couple days of July, he said, the Arctic Circle has already released 4.5-5 megatons of CO2.
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For centuries the Inupiaq, a Native Alaskan group living north of the Arctic Circle, have hunted bowhead whales for food.
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CAMS tracked over 100 "intense and long-lived" wildfires in the Arctic Circle over six weeks in June and July.
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Extreme weather is also a major factor in competitions in Chile's Patagonia region, Costa Rica's jungles and the Arctic Circle.
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That's the idea of Norwegian Kjell Ove Hveding, who lives north of the Arctic Circle in a town called Sommarøy.
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Even north of the Arctic Circle, thermometers have hit 28503 degrees Fahrenheit, melting glaciers and putting imperiled wildlife at risk.
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Other marches took place across the globe, as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as Antarctica.
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In October 2018, a US aircraft carrier sailed above the Arctic Circle for the first time since the Cold War.
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A lot of the Arctic Circle was pushed down by miles of ice many tens of thousands of years ago.
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JPMorgan Chase has announced plans to stop approving loans to companies pursuing new fossil fuel drilling in the Arctic Circle.
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And one Swedish village just above the Arctic Circle, hit an all time record high, peaking above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Even here, you can clearly see the continents, save for the region above the Arctic circle, where few ships travel.
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Even a brief exposure to the near-freezing temperatures of water in the arctic circle can be a death sentence.
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To try and mitigate this, companies have experimented with moving facilities to near the Arctic Circle and even submerging servers underwater.
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SODANKYLA, a town in Finnish Lapland just north of the Arctic Circle, boasts an average annual temperature a little below freezing.
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Images: Dorte MandrupA stunning structure built 150 miles inside the Arctic Circle will serve as a crucial research center for glaciologists.
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But migrants will just find other ways to get into Europe, even if they have to go through the Arctic Circle.
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Since the start of June, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), has tracked more than 100 intense wildfires in the Arctic Circle.
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Over a third of the country&aposs surface extends above the Arctic Circle where high temperatures have been recorded as well.
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Ledoux got more than he wished for last August while sailing through Lancaster Sounds in Canada, north of the Arctic Circle.
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An office building in the arctic circle is not likely to be very different from an office in a tropical context.
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"I have just qualified Tonga for the Winter Olympics," he declared in a facebook live interview from near the Arctic Circle.
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Skywatchers have witnessed the display several times over the last few days in the area just south of the Arctic Circle.
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Explorer We traveled more than 3,73 miles from the Arctic Circle to the Atlantic Ocean in nine days, visiting six countries.
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Akainacephalus would have roamed the southern part of Laramidia, which once stretched from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Swedish hamlet of Markusvinsa recorded a sizzling 34.8 Celsius (94.6 Fahrenheit), the highest temperature measured north of the Arctic Circle.
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Also known as "Concerto for Birds and Orchestra," it features bird calls he recorded in a bog near the Arctic Circle.
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The luxurious resort is in a northern region of the country called Finnish Lapland — 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Since the start of June, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), has tracked more than 100 intense wildfires in the Arctic Circle.
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Hammerton said going to the Arctic Circle in winter was "crazy," but there was one place Bandit seemed to like best.
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The island is also above the Arctic Circle and, the release notes, "along sea-routes connecting Russia to the Atlantic Ocean."
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During Tillerson's tenure as ExxonMobil CEO, the company invests in oil production in Siberia, the Arctic Circle and the Black Sea.
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Nineteen subpopulations of polar bears inhabit five countries that ring the Arctic Circle — Canada, the United States, Norway, Greenland and Russia.
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Today, Murmansk is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle by far—slightly fewer than 300,113 people live there, making it about the same size as Pittsburgh or Halifax, NS. By contrast, 107,265 people live in Canada's three northern territories per the 2011 census, and that includes an enormous area well south of the Arctic Circle.
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But even up here, over 300 miles north of the Arctic circle, the assumption of frozen ground is starting to feel precarious.
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In August 2014 I moved to Tromsø, Norway, an island of 70,000 people located over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Around one hundred of them found themselves in Nieden, a remote fishing village on the country's northern edge, inside the Arctic Circle.
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Given the soaring summer heat in many parts of the globe, including the Arctic Circle, it's about time the president pay attention.
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It comprises Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States and Denmark, all of which have territory inside the Arctic Circle.
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The taxis were also tested in the sweltering heat of the Arizona desert and in frigid, icy conditions in the Arctic Circle.
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Natural-color satellite image of Lake El'gygytgyn, which sits inside a small asteroid impact crater in eastern Russia near the Arctic Circle.
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NASA set the Arctic Circle ablaze last week with colorful blue vapor clouds that were seen above parts of Finland and Norway.
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On the contrary, species abundant in northern latitudes, such as the Arctic Circle, were more likely to be vectors for infectious diseases.
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The forest encircles the Northern Hemisphere in a band near and just below the Arctic Circle, through Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Russia.
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The Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka weather station in Laponia, north of the Arctic Circle, recorded 32.5 degrees, beating a 1945 record of 32 degrees.
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But for those observing in the world's most northern countries near the Arctic Circle, the issue is more pressing in summer months.
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Located some 300 km into the Arctic Circle, the sub-polar oceanic climate is perfectly suited to foster these world-class creatures.
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Watch more on Motherboard: The vault was built 1,300 km north of the Arctic Circle to house the world's most precious seeds.
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That was the temperature in Utqiagvik (also known as Barrow) a town of about 2370,3003 that sits north of the Arctic Circle.
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The space trash ends up in the remote Mezensky District, whose northernmost town is less than 20 miles from the Arctic Circle.
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Greenland is home to Thule Air Base, a US radar and listening post located hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Finnair's location in Helsinki, close to the Arctic Circle, means the airline can offer the shortest flight times between Asia and Europe.
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A small town in the remote north of the Arctic Circle is set to be home to the world's largest data center.
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That deployment also saw B-2s fly into the Arctic, performing "an extended duration sortie over the Arctic Circle" in early September.
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Fewer, however, know much more than that, and fewer still have made the trip to the lake, which straddles the Arctic Circle.
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That was the temperature in Utqiagvik (also known as Barrow), a town of about 4,400 that sits north of the Arctic Circle.
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Destinations like Iceland and Norway have become a winter tourist destination for those who have dreamed of surfing in the Arctic Circle.
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In the throes of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was planning to test a massive nuclear bomb in the Arctic Circle.
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It took five flights to reach the Arctic Watch Wilderness Lodge on Canada's Somerset Island, roughly 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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The story begins with the artist's trip to the Arctic Circle with a French scientific expedition to research her series The Fortunetellers (2007).
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Illustration: Julius T. CsotonyiA pair of fossilized teeth confirms the presence of hyenas north of the Arctic circle during the last Ice Age.
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The first album, Helluland, refers to a description often ascribed to Baffin Island—Canada's largest island, which reaches well beyond the Arctic Circle.
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The desert-like tundra conditions of the Arctic Circle mean the bears see, on average, fewer than 14 inches of precipitation a year.
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In the Arctic Circle, about 800 miles from the North Pole, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
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Power booster You might soon be able to visit the world's first "energy-positive" hotel, right in the middle of the Arctic Circle.
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Norway has taken the lead, establishing at Hammerfest in Finnmark the world's first plant above the Arctic Circle to export liquified natural gas.
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Extreme weather is also a major factor in competitions in the Patagonia region of Chile, Costa Rica's jungles and in the Arctic Circle.
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Great Bear Lake straddles the Arctic Circle in Canada and is home to the first Unesco Biosphere Reserve led by an indigenous community.
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The company needs about nine full-time pilots to meet its weekly schedule, serving tiny towns north of the Arctic Circle and beyond.
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Situated in the permafrost, it is one of the largest cities north of the Arctic Circle and is the easternmost town in Europe.
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With broadband service available, Quintillion is also betting that more data centers, research centers, hospitals and schools will make the Arctic Circle home.
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Far above the Arctic Circle, near the small island of Ingøya, a white whale wearing a sort of harness was spotted last Thursday.
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Many hours and more than 250 icy miles later, he pulled over in Siglufjordur, a fishing village on the outskirts of the Arctic Circle.
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To see the Northern Lights you need clear skies, which isn't guaranteed in the Arctic Circle, so plan to stay at least a week.
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I guess this means that anyone who's not connected to the Arctic Circle – like, say, the entirety of Australia — isn't spared from the vesps.
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In 2015, during an eclipse on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, deep inside the Arctic Circle, the spectrometer's emission lines provided a new discovery.
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In some places, strips of white painter's tape, with descriptive markings such as "Arctic Circle" and "0°/ Equator," provide a semblance of geospatial orientation.
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On Grímsey, a remote island 25 miles off the northern coast of Iceland, sits a massive orb of concrete that marks the Arctic Circle.
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" While I'm pretty sure bar soap travels fairly well, it's not made with "Alpine Caribou Moss" sourced from "Northern Finland in the Arctic Circle.
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Instead, this shows off the weirdest, wackiest, and most incredible places to play sport, from 2,000 feet below ground, to inside the Arctic circle.
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As with oil, recent technological innovations are enabling gas exploration to reach offshore, Arctic Circle and ultra-deepwater reserves considered difficult to develop before.
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A post office worker gets stationed "on a frozen island above the Arctic Circle" where he meets a carpenter who makes his own toys.
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Temperatures above 32 C extended to the northern reaches of Scandinavia, setting records in Sweden, Finland and Norway for stations above the Arctic Circle.
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Since the beginning of June, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) observed more than 100 intense and long-lasting fires in the Arctic Circle.
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Solstice celebrations With the sun positioned so far to the south the tilt of the Earth leaves the Arctic Circle entirely in the dark.
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In just under 10 minutes, the skaters experiment using creative natural obstacles, testing their street dexterity amongst the harsh terrain of the Arctic Circle.
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We were hoping to see the Northern Lights, but should have gone further north into the Arctic Circle than Rovaniemi to better our chances.
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But these teeth, officially identified Tuesday in the journal Open Quaternary, provide the first evidence that hyenas also lived north of the Arctic Circle.
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Such a tilt on Earth would mean that the Arctic Circle didn't begin 66 degrees north of the Equator, but at the Equator itself.
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On one assignment she provided a vividly detailed look at the workers who built a 22014-mile winter ice road to the Arctic Circle.
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During that time, the Earth's tilt relative to the plane of its orbit produces the "midnight sun" phenomenon in parts of the Arctic Circle.
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From "Searching for a Rectangular Sun Above the Arctic Circle": Low on the horizon, the sun casts an eerie light on the icy sea.
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The vessel was carrying researchers to Franz Josef Land, a Russian archipelago far above the Arctic Circle whose only human residents are military personnel.
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A new natural gas pipeline connecting Russia and China is the latest example of increasing collaboration between Moscow and Beijing in the Arctic Circle.
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Located above the Arctic Circle, Lapland experiences days of complete darkness in the winter and days when the sun doesn't set in the summer.
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The Northwest Passage — the long sought-after sea route from Europe to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic circle — is quickly becoming more navigable.
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Mediterranean swims in Greece and Turkey are popular, but tour destinations range from Lake Powell on the Colorado River to the Arctic Circle in Norway.
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Especially adventurous Virgos should consider applying to programs like the Arctic Circle, the residency at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Land Art Mongolia.
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The flight was traveling from Moscow to Murmansk, a Russian city in the Arctic Circle, when an on-board emergency forced it to turn back.
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And, this past April, Bezos posted a video on Twitter of himself on vacation in Norway, where he went dog-sledding above the Arctic Circle.
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He grew up in a cedar house in southeast Alaska and lived for several years in a traditional sod house north of the Arctic Circle.
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Russia discovered five new islands in the Arctic Circle, where the country's been increasing its research and military presence as temperatures warm and ice recedes.
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He lives with his wife Lindis, who is an anthropologist, their three sons and a dog in Steigen, north of the Arctic Circle in Norway.
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A Russian river near the Arctic Circle seems to have turned blood red, with locals claiming the waste from a nickel plant is to blame.
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Locals in the village of Nyda, which is situated on the Yamal Peninsula just above the Arctic circle, have never seen anything quite like it.
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Time to go An Alaskan village votes to move from its remote home, just outside the Arctic Circle, because global warming's causing extreme coastal erosion.
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Residents in the small village of Nyda, right above the Arctic circle, first noticed the large icy orbs on a nearby beach in late October.
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"That big blocking high over the North Pacific is what is going to disrupt the Arctic Circle, flooding the area with anomalous warmth," Ventrice said.
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Among the drawbacks of warming, rising temperatures are thawing permafrost such as at Kangerlussuaq on the Arctic Circle, the site of the island's main airport.
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Consulting rail maps, we decided to start about 90 miles above the Arctic Circle, in Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden with regular passenger service.
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Temperatures above 32 degrees Celsius extended to the northern reaches of Scandinavia, setting records in Sweden, Finland and Norway for stations above the Arctic Circle.
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President Obama last year became the first president in U.S. history to venture above the Arctic circle when he visited the Alaskan village of Kotzebue.
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Now, Richardson is on his own pilgrimage, walking from Budapest to the Arctic Circle for a new photo project about what it means to survive.
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In Europe: Unprecedented heat led to a rare wildfire outbreak in Scandinavia, and record highs have been set all the way above the Arctic Circle.
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Residents of a picturesque Norwegian island called Sommaroy, just north of the Arctic Circle, want to banish clocks and live beyond the constraints of time.
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Wildfires are now a springtime feature inside the Arctic Circle, and temperatures in Greenland were as much as 40 degrees Fahrenheit above average this year.
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For those who live just above the Arctic Circle, there is at least one day a year when the sun never pushes above the horizon.
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Some eastern villages now have two or three men for every woman — the kind of ratio one otherwise finds near the Arctic Circle, demographers say.
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The territory is home to Thule Air Base, the US military's northernmost base, located about 750 miles above the Arctic Circle and built in 1951.
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Two years later, a similarly sized group was then dispatched to the Troms region above the Arctic Circle and far closer to the Russian border.
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While Nuuk, which sits 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle, is the capital and largest city of Greenland, few people have heard of it.
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In Svalbard, above the Arctic Circle, you can't be born and you can't be buried, but you can find renewal in the dark of winter.
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The newspaper comic strip "Arctic Circle," by the environmentally minded cartoonist Alex Hallatt, is about talking penguins and their fellow creatures living in the north.
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Since it began, "Arctic Circle," which has been syndicated by King Features since 2007, has covered topics like marine pollution, bird conservation and disappearing bees.
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But that didn't stop people from bringing nearly 50,000 seeds of potatoes, lentils, wheat, barley and other food staples to the Arctic Circle this week.
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"They hope to decipher [the ice column's] cryptic patterns, pretty much the same way the readers of Arctic Circle engage with the work," Manouach says.
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However, there are scores of other reasons that make February the perfect time to hit the Arctic Circle and wait for one of nature's greatest displays.
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Vlad Sokhin discovered this last year when he spent six weeks roaming around north of the Arctic Circle photographing some of the places affected by climatechange.
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From the Norwegian town of Mo i Rana, just south of the Arctic Circle, the 31-year-old Ulsom has built an impressive international mushing record.
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The orb was commissioned by the nearby town of Akureyri, which was seeking "a symbol for the Arctic Circle on the island of Grímsey," he said.
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In Europe: Unprecedented heat led to a wildfire outbreak in Scandinavia, and record highs have been set all the way above the Arctic Circle this month.
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Because if you're going to live north of the Arctic Circle—and hundreds of thousands of Russians do—then you might as well make it livable.
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His lawyer has previously objected to his incarceration in a penal colony above the Arctic Circle, saying the extreme cold had given Mr. Sentsov health problems.
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The city, built in inhuman conditions by Gulag prisoners, sits next to some of the world's largest nickel deposits, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Together, they capture what's going on from New Zealand to the western coast of Africa, and from the Antarctic Circle to close to the Arctic Circle.
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Quak means "snowflake" in Yupik, a language spoken in parts of the Arctic Circle, said Alonso Dominguez Sanchez Teruel, the museum's assistant director of public programs.
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Tip "Reindeer need a lot of space," says Issat Turi, 40, an indigenous Sami reindeer herder from Guovdageaidnu, a Norwegian village north of the Arctic Circle.
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On the Verge Inspired by her own journey to the Arctic Circle, Himali Singh Soin upends traditional stories of exploration in her new commission for Frieze.
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"It grows as far north as areas of the Arctic circle; it grows in tropical Ethiopia; it grows at high altitudes in the Andes," she said.
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Alaska-based climatologist Brian Brettschneider created this terrific guide: On the chance you live near the Arctic Circle, the sun never really sets during the solstice.
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Fram Strait, Arctic Circle (CNN)It's spring in the Arctic, and nature in the far north is just waking up, warmed by 24 daily hours of sunlight.
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SEATTLE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Arctic housing specialist Jack Hébert likes to paraphrase a saying from the Inupiaq, a Native Alaskan group living north of the Arctic Circle.
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Throughout his journey, he's seen the countryside from a motorbike, the Alps from a train window, and the Northern Lights from Finland's sliver of the Arctic Circle.
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Russia is adding or upgrading some 12 naval bases across the Arctic Circle -- expanding its capability to send subs in numbers through the crucial Greenland-Iceland-U.
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He does seem to be in the general vicinity right now, posting photos yesterday from a recent trip to Facebook's new data center in the Arctic Circle.
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The visitors` center for LKAB, the Swedish state-owned mining company, is inside an old iron ore tunnel in Kiruna, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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Keeping the servers cool as they crunch numbers is such a challenge that Facebook even built one of its facilities on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
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The residents of the Russian city of Norilsk, inside the Arctic Circle, have been posting photos on social media of an alarming sight: a bright red river.
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Jon Hansen has fled Oslo for this desolate land above the Arctic Circle, trying to escape the wrath of his boss, a mobster known as the Fisherman.
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All told, the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said its team observed more than 100 intense and long-lasting fires in the Arctic Circle this summer.
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They dive in the Arctic Circle with puffins, go horseback riding or take helicopter tours listening to ethereal, whale-like sounds by the Icelandic band Sigur Ros.
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Temperatures this month reached 86 degrees Fahrenheit well inside the Arctic Circle in Sweden, where the worst fires the country has seen in decades are now burning.
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The cuisine of Iceland evolved under unique environmental conditions; Iceland sits just under the Arctic Circle and only gets enough sunlight to grow food during the summer.
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Visiting destinations including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the Middle East, and the Arctic Circle, the pair&aposs adventures were documented on Facebook.
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The sanctions slowed work on a project by Exxon and Rosneft on what was hailed as a major discovery in the Kara Sea above the Arctic Circle.
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Scientists have discovered the ancient remains of bone-crushing hyenas north of the Arctic circle, showing that they roamed the frozen landscape during the last ice age.
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The air base, located 1,200 km (750 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, includes a radar station that is part of a U.S. ballistic missile early warning system.
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Russia is the most Arctic of countries, controlling 2000 percent of the land area above the Arctic Circle and home to three-quarters of the polar region's population.
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High tunnels have sprouted on the tundra of western Alaska to Fort Yukon, a small village north of the Arctic Circle where winter temperatures dip to -40°F.
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The European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said its team observed more than 100 intense and long-lasting fires in the Arctic Circle since the start of June.
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On Thursday, temperatures in 11 states in the continental US saw temperatures lower than the one recorded in Utqiagvik, Alaska's northernmost city, situated north of the Arctic Circle.
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It was a beluga whale, jumping in and out of the river, hundreds of miles from its natural habitat in the far colder waters of the Arctic Circle.
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While Oslo is known for its breathtaking winter landscapes and occasional church burnings, its proximity to the Arctic Circle means that many days have little to no sunlight.
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About 12 miles from the village of Jokkmokk we saw our first reindeer, and shortly after, a sign on the roadside that we had entered the Arctic Circle.
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One of my colleagues on the Reader Center, Josie Sedgwick, wanted to know what the long winters are like for our readers who live around the Arctic Circle.
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Seabourn, which tops LTI's inaugural cruise line ranking, travels to locations all around the world, ranging from the Panama Canal to the Amazon and even the Arctic circle.
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Thule air base, located 1200 kms (750 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, includes a radar station that is part of a U.S. ballistic missile early warning system.
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In the Yamal tundra, which sits above the Arctic Circle, temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to the average of 77 degrees this time of the year.
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It also found that the ozone hole above the Arctic Circle had not significantly healed, but the Antarctic hole is on track to be patched by the 2060s.
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Baked Alaska Head to a village near the Arctic Circle in Alaska where it's been so warm that residents have voted to move because their little island is melting.
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Residents of this barrier island, located just south of the Arctic Circle, some 600 miles from Anchorage and only 100 miles from Russia, have been saying so for years.
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As they attempted to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage, the ships became hopelessly trapped in ice above the Arctic Circle off Canada's King William Island.
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The Yamal district put on a stroganina festival in December in the town of Yar-Sale, just north of the Arctic Circle and with a population of about 6,000.
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High above the Arctic Circle and close to Finland's border, the area is the center of local Sámi culture and provides a great viewing spot for the aurora borealis.
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DAYBREAK on the outskirts of Salla, a town in Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle in Finland, so remote that its slogan is "Salla: In the Middle of Nowhere".
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He became the first sitting president to venture north of the Arctic circle last summer—a symbolic trip intended to raise awareness of rising sea levels and melting permafrost.
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Since the start of June, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), which provides data about atmospheric composition and emissions, has tracked more than 100 intense wildfires in the Arctic Circle.
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The Arctic Circle â€" the realm of polar bears and dwindling sea ice at the top of the world â€" hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit, 32 degrees Celsius, this week.
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Since the ice no longer acts as a barrier, the animals are able to travel freely through the Arctic Circle from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, TWC reported.
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Researchers at the University of Oxford undertook the task in the hopes of finding a still pristine location, perhaps deep in the arctic circle or on some remote island.
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Details about the sortie over the Norwegian Sea are scarce, but the aircraft involved completed a night refueling over the Arctic Circle as part of Bomber Task Force Europe.
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Time for plan B: Dale started saving up for a new ring, and decided his second proposal attempt would be during a two-month trip to the Arctic Circle.
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The Thule air base, located 1200 kms (750 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, hosts a radar station that is part of a U.S. ballistic missile early warning system.
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I was the new bear monitor en route with six maintenance technicians to a North Warning System radar station, part of an array that spans North America's Arctic circle.
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The film follows Jesper, a spoiled postman (Jason Schwartzman) who's given an ultimatum: start a post office in the Arctic Circle or be cut off from the family's fortune.
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In early May, the American secretary, speaking at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland, praised the changes caused by the melting of ice in the Arctic Circle.
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Over the course of 4 million years, Pluto's slouch shifts back and forth between 102 and 126 degrees, causing its equivalent of an Arctic Circle to grow and shrink.
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Hammerton and Bandit visited destinations including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the Middle East, the Arctic Circle, and across the UK. He documented their adventures on Facebook.
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At Scotland's northern tip, in the wind-blasted Shetland Islands, just beneath the Arctic Circle, another restless son was moved to travel by the memory of another cherished father.
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Melentiev spent three years in a settlement near the Arctic Circle, where convicts were building the White Sea Canal, the first of Stalin's construction projects realized with gulag labor.
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The bears of Katmai live well below the Arctic Circle, but as sea ice melts, polar bears are hunting on land more—and competing with brown bears for food.
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Trilobites Around the Arctic Circle during the summer, there's no need for the saying "I wish this day would never end" — because for a few months, the days don't.
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Covering at least 10 percent of its surface, they provide the tiny nation - home to just 330,000 people below the Arctic Circle - with abundant clean energy and spectacular waterfalls.
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The administration's proposal, rolled out last week, would give the State Department $587,000 to build a first permanent consular services outpost in the strategic location in the Arctic Circle.
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They also come at a time when China has sought to incorporate Iceland into the Belt and Road Initiative, and as Russia asserts its dominance in the Arctic Circle.
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The Arctic region as a whole is warming faster than the rest of the world, and we're seeing the consequences of climate change throughout the Arctic Circle, not just Greenland.
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The USS Harry S. Truman's presence at NATO's Trident Juncture exercise in late 2018 was the first time a US carrier was above the Arctic Circle since the early 1990s.
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Norilsk, 300km (186 miles) inside the Arctic Circle, has the largest individual SO2 emissions, followed by the South African town of Kriel, about 150km east of Johannesburg, Monday's report found.
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Officially known as…Read more ReadThe Doomsday Vault is about 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle and holds close to a million seed samples from all over the world.
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The facility in Darmstadt controls its polar orbiters via a fiberoptic connection that runs across Europe and under the Barents Sea to Svalbard, the Norwegian island above the Arctic Circle.
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News of the icy beach balls first emerged after residents in the village of Nyda, which sits on the Yamal Peninsula above the Arctic Circle, posted images to social media.
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The city, comfortably within the borders of the Arctic Circle and home to a little more than 18,000 people, is built on a hill above a vast iron ore mine.
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"This year alone we have seen temperature records shatter from New Delhi to Anchorage – from Paris to Santiago – from Adelaide to the Arctic Circle," he told journalists in New York.
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Nogovitsyn lives in Mirny, a diamond-mining town in Russian Siberia about 280 miles (450 kilometers) from the Arctic Circle, where most of the town's 40,000 residents work for Alrosa.
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In fact, according to the EU's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, more than 100 intense and long-lasting fires have been observed in the Arctic Circle since the start of June.
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Deep in Siberia, about 280 miles from the Arctic Circle, is a town that's been called a "mono-city" because so much of the population works for a single company.
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He was deputy mayor for economics and finance for two years in Norilsk, a town above the Arctic Circle that was essentially created as an extension of the industry there.
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CreditCreditJuho Kuva for The New York Times TORNIO, Finland — You must have a very good reason to toil in iron-melting heat an hour's drive south of the Arctic Circle.
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The survey is particularly important amid increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather across the planet, including "watermelon snow," wildfires inside the Arctic Circle and deadly heat waves in nations like India.
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Black is the menthol buzz of licorice or the density of rough bread from countries near the Arctic Circle, where the winter months see only a few hours of daylight.
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Klaus: Starring, J.K. Simmons, Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, Joan Cusack, the animated film follows a rejected postal academy student who is stationed on a frozen island above the Arctic Circle.
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As the article points out, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now is equal to the amount 3 million years ago when camels roamed above the Arctic Circle.
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Investing in real estate above the Arctic Circle might be a real long-term winner, but at our latitude, where it will be very hot, it would be a loser.
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The European Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service estimates that fires within the Arctic Circle have produced more than 100m tonnes of carbon dioxide, or roughly what Belgium emits in a year.
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"Everything is changing, people are trying to figure out how to adapt," said Afanasiy V. Kudrin, 63, a farmer in Nalimsk, a village of 525 people above the Arctic Circle.
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Thule Air Base is located in the northwestern corner of Greenland, in a coastal valley 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 950 miles south of the North Pole.
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"Everything is changing, people are trying to figure out how to adapt," said Afanasiy V. Kudrin, 63, a farmer in Nalimsk, a village of 525 people above the Arctic Circle.
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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a man in the northwestern Russian region of Murmansk, just south of the Arctic Circle, reportedly stumbled upon a very intimidating looking tank.
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For decades the Inupiaq, a Native Alaskan group living north of the Arctic Circle, have argued that international limits on subsistence whaling were not big enough to meet their food needs.
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The two places are thousands of miles apart, separated by the vast Pacific Ocean and a half-world of latitude, with Shishmaref near the Arctic Circle and Kiribati near the equator.
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"The contrast to the midsummer in the north and in the UK is phenomenal, but what I really noticed this time was the stars," he says of his Arctic Circle home.
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Kongsberg, a local firm, and Indra, a Spanish one, are consolidating control of 15 small airports in the country's north into a remote tower at Bodo, just above the Arctic Circle.
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On August 8, Russian civilians around the remote village of Nyonoksa found themselves downwind of a military nuclear propulsion experiment gone wrong in the White Sea, just outside the Arctic Circle.
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When finished in late 213, the road to Tuk will be accessible from the Dempster Highway, which begins in the Yukon Territory near Alaska and heads northeast across the Arctic Circle.
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But the conditions in Antarctica and the Arctic Circle are currently quite a bit more extreme and protests in the name of facts are still rocking those two far-flung locations.
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Scientists explain that because the permafrost is so hard, many of the graves in the Arctic Circle are shallow, which means that climate change could expose them quicker than previously thought.
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Set above the Arctic Circle, the series follows the men of the real-life Franklin Expedition, which departed from England in 1847 in search of a Northwest Passage, then promptly disappeared.
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The story is the same across much of Alaska, with Kotzebue, which is north of the Arctic Circle, setting or tying record high minimum temperatures nine times in March, CNN noted.
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At Chandalar Shelf in Alaska, a site about 200 kilometres (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, I kneeled on the damp, muddy ground, and plunged in a small serrated shovel.
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A study published today in the journal Scientific Reports offers an answer: Over the past 15 years, the authors found, melting ice opened up previously clogged pathways through the Arctic Circle.
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But something looms in the background, linking our spectacular summer to the wildfires burning portentously in the Arctic Circle and Greece, and the extreme heat and rainfall that have ravaged Japan.
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My Syrian friend chuckled at the question about the Arctic Circle — where the summer sun never fully vanishes — but insisted: The law is the law; it's what the Prophet Muhammad commands.
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A number of cities and towns in Norway, Sweden and Finland hit all-time highs this summer, with towns as far north as the Arctic Circle recording nearly 262-degree temperatures.
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In Norway, the Svalvard Global Seed Vault, just a few hundred kilometers from the Arctic Circle, stores over 850,000 varieties of seeds, believed a requirement to sustain the world's food supply.
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Record warmth was seen over much of Europe for 245, which saw summer temperatures well over 26.2 degrees Fahrenheit -- over 22016 degrees Celsius -- all the way up to the Arctic Circle.
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Yet the sanctions were effective in slowing work on a project by Exxon and Rosneft on what was hailed as a major discovery in the Kara Sea above the Arctic Circle.
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The Carr Fire is just one event in an already devastating wildfire year in the United States, coinciding with vast blazes in other parts of the world, including the Arctic Circle.
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However there are some small details highlighted from these monumental settings, such as lichens growing on cracked quartz in the Arctic Circle, and the weathered skin of an elephant in Namibia.
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In the Arctic Circle, on the far-northern Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, a drab facility carved into the mountainside could be humanity's last hope in the event of a global catastrophe.
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Its path will take it north of mainland Russia in the Arctic Circle, to a tiny port town called Pevek some 3,000 miles away from where it is now in Murmansk.
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As of Friday, over 50 blazes were torching forests, mostly in central and western Sweden but also in the north, above the Arctic Circle, and on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland.
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In turn, America has doubled the number of marines based in Norway, and on October 230th sent an aircraft-carrier into the Arctic Circle for the first time in almost 26 years.
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The seed vault is located 800 miles (1,300 km) north of the Arctic Circle on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, and it contains the largest collection of agricultural biodiversity in the world.
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Nearly 1 million seed samples are stored in the Svalbard vault, which was established to protect the world's plant diversity in the event of disaster and is stored above the Arctic Circle.
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Barrow Observatory in the snow (Image:NOAA)Three hundred miles above of the Arctic Circle is America's northern most snow observatory, typically the last place in the nation to see its snow melt.
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It's just north of the Bering Strait, 123 miles north of Nome, which is pretty close to the Arctic Circle The village works a bit like a mine's canary regarding global warming.
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The artwork, called Orbis & Globus ("Circle & Sphere"), weighs 8 metric tons (almost 9 tons US), and will be physically moved a short distance each year because the Arctic Circle is moving, too.
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Of the 19 polar bear subpopulations in the Arctic Circle, three have shown substantial declines, including bears in the South Beaufort Sea off Alaska's coast and in West Hudson Bay in Canada.
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Traveling high up at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour, the butterfly migrates from Africa to the Arctic Circle in an annual journey that can take up to six generations.
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It's been estimated that nearly a fifth of all undiscovered petroleum reserves lie north of the Arctic Circle, and recovering it becomes more technically feasible every year the ice continues to melt.
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Featuring a wealth of comedic voice talent, the animated comedy "Klaus" traces Santa's origins to the miserable Arctic Circle town of Smeerensburg, where an underachieving postal worker (Jason Schwartzman) discovers Klaus (J.
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And a worker at the facility is preparing to grow potatoes and turnips on land close to the Arctic Circle that is usually too cold for anything other than lichen and reindeer.
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The abrupt drop in temperatures across the Eastern United States this week may make this animated Santa origin story uncomfortably relatable, as it is set on an island above the Arctic Circle.
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Unstad, population 15, is among the Lofoten Islands, an archipelago that juts like an arthritic finger from Norway's west coast into the Atlantic Ocean, more than 100 miles above the Arctic Circle.
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AT THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, NWT—If I had to prioritize the most important gear I brought with me on this climate change reporting trip, the portable solar panels would rank pretty high.
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"We will be in the Arctic Circle ... in the high north in the Atlantic and the high Pacific in the Bering Straits on a regular basis," Spencer said at the Brookings event.
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On Monday, on the cusp of the Arctic Circle, it was Iceland with a victory over Kosovo, enough to make it the smallest country ever to have qualified for a World Cup.
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We asked readers who live around the Arctic Circle — where in some places the sun doesn't shine for weeks after the winter solstice — to share their stories and photos of life there.
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In 2014, he rowed across the Atlantic Ocean by himself in a rowboat, paddleboarded through the Arctic Circle in 2016 and participated in extreme-distance cross country skiing and mountain bike races.
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OSLO — In a remote Norwegian town north of the Arctic Circle, a cybersecurity expert with ties to WikiLeaks checked out of a hotel, dressed in khaki hiking gear and carrying heavy baggage.
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Among them are an interview with Martin Scorsese about letting go, finding renewal in the dark of winter above the Arctic Circle, above, and the meat-lover's guide to eating less meat.
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An island nation close to the Arctic Circle with about 339,000 residents, Iceland has seen home prices surge in recent years, due in part to a strong economy and a housing shortage.
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In "No Nighttime, No Rules: Summertime Above the Arctic Circle," Bonnie Tsui writes about her family vacation: My husband, Matt, and I pressed our faces close to the glass, savoring the view.
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Tillerson signed the Fairbanks Declaration in Fairbanks, Alask,a at a meeting of the Arctic Council, a forum made up of indigenous groups and eight countries with territory bordering the Arctic Circle.
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In turn, America has doubled the number of its marines based in Norway and, in October, sent an aircraft-carrier into the Arctic circle for the first time in almost 30 years.
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It's a game that literally invites you to walk around the ruined halls of a Dalek City on the planet Skaro; a crashed Cyberman spaceship in the Arctic Circle; a futuristic underwater city.
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But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
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Valtýsson's children can now catch mackerel - a fish usually associated with warmer climes - at the harbour in Akureyri, a town in northern Iceland just 60 km (37 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.
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Partly thanks to global warming, last year it started drilling in the Laptev Sea, in the Arctic Circle, despite low prices and semi-frozen terrain that would put off most Western oil companies.
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Three months later, he flew to a small village in Yakutia where he took a Soviet-era speedboat down the Lena River to a Siberian camp 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
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The social network established its Luleå data center in northern Sweden (just 70 miles south of the Arctic Circle) years ago, but it's obviously still a source of pride for CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Frei also told CBC News that while snowy owls breed north of the Arctic Circle, they often travel south for a "winter vacation," which could explain what the owl was doing in Montreal.
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The three instances where he used non-commercial and non-military aircraft for travel included a bipartisan congressional delegation led by the Senate and natural resources committee to the Arctic Circle, Zinke said.
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The northern people are under assault and are being asked to atone for and bear the costs of climate change for the majority of the global population that live below the Arctic Circle.
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Iceland knows everything about his career because, as the Iceland players will tell you, very little beats English Premier League soccer on television during the long, dark winter nights near the Arctic Circle.
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"I was surprised to learn just how good I felt afterward," CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said of his own jump into cold water 2100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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"I created created video material from found images of sunsets and glaciers from locations north of the arctic circle and south of the Antarctic circle using software I wrote in Processing," Stearns says.
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The last time atmospheric CO₂ levels were as elevated as they are today, three million years ago, sea levels were most likely 45 feet higher, and giant camels roamed above the Arctic Circle.
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As our Aeroflot flight from Moscow traced an 8-hour arc above the Arctic Circle, we delighted as the red-orange disc of the sun seemed to roll along with us, never setting.
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There was the late-night family dinner we had at a remote waterside pub upon arriving in the Lofoten Islands, a far northern archipelago situated more than 100 miles above the Arctic Circle.
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That day, a group of American and Norwegian researchers launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket from the Arctic Circle island of Andøya in an effort to study aurora borealis (the northern lights).
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A massive counter clockwise swirl of freezing air, the pattern is driven by varying pressures in the atmosphere that either keep cold air locked above the Arctic circle or let it drift southward.
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The dead seals – bearded, spotted and ringed seals – have been found at sites ranging from southern edge of the Bering Strait region to the Chukchi coastline above the Arctic Circle, NOAA's Fisheries said.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo focused his council statements at the edge of the Arctic Circle not on climate change, but security — which is not a typical concern for the consensus-based Arctic Council.
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"It is amazing to imagine hyenas thriving in the harsh conditions above the Arctic Circle during the Ice Age," said study co-author and Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula in a University at Buffalo release.
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Unprecedented heat and dry conditions in Europe, which saw temperatures in the 30s Celsius (90s Fahrenheit) all the way up to Scandinavia and the Arctic Circle, led to heavy crop losses in many countries.
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Manchin continued to vent about the Senate's lack of productivity during a trip he took with Senate colleagues to countries around the Arctic Circle, including Greenland, a Norwegian archipelago, Scotland and the Faroe Islands.
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The nearest stretch of ice this summer, said ACCAP climate scientist Rick Thoman, lies about 150 miles (240 km) north of Kaktovik, a village above the Arctic Circle on the northeastern edge of Alaska.
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By analyzing data from seven weather stations in northern Europe, the researchers found that the closer a community is to the Arctic Circle, the more this summer's heat stood out in the temperature record.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence, in a visit to Iceland next week, will have talks about 'incursions' into the Arctic Circle by China and Russia, a senior Trump administration official said on Wednesday.
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Credit...Melissa Schäfer On the flight from Oslo to Svalbard, the sun gave way to night as we crossed the Arctic Circle; for one magical moment, the plane's wing bisected light and dark perfectly.
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Rovaniemi Journal ROVANIEMI, Finland — Here in Santa Claus Village, near the Arctic Circle, is the self-anointed "official Santa," a Finn who refused to give his real name, insisting he was actually Mr. Claus.
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In 22017, not very long after the Resort hosted its first guests, Kochar and Mazmanyan were arrested and deported to the Arctic Circle, about as far from Lake Sevan as it's possible to imagine.
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A Yakutia resident, Pavel Yefimov, found the head last summer on the banks of the Tirekhtyakh river, close to the Arctic Circle in the region of Yakutia, local media outlet the Siberian Times reported.
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The automaker's new Large Animal Detection system can spot and identify outsized carbon-based hazards and stop the car before colliding with moose in the Arctic Circle, kangaroo Down Under, or deer in Suburbia, USA.
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Located well north of the Arctic Circle, Devon is the world's largest uninhabited island and home to the massive Haughton impact crater that was formed by a mile-wide asteroid nearly 40 million years ago.
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A video of the car drifting at perilous speeds across the freshly fallen snow will no doubt appeal to anyone who dreams of taking their high-performing, environmentally sustainable vehicle somewhere above the Arctic Circle.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty six miners were missing and four confirmed dead after an accident on Thursday at a coal mine above the Arctic circle owned by a subsidiary of Severstal, Russian prosecutors said on Friday.
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The Powerhouse in central Trondheim produces 49 kWh per square metre of floor space per year from solar panels and consumes just 21—an impressive achievement for a building just 350km from the Arctic Circle.
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Against the backdrop of the vast, Yamal-Nenets region of the Arctic circle, the video shows herds of reindeer, people walking around in yellow hazmat suits and masks, disinfecting the ground, and incinerating infected matter.
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The suits aren't fully armored, but they provide quite a bit of protection to their wearers, and can be used in a variety of environments, from the African plains to high above the Arctic Circle.
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The first case: Last August, in a remote part of the Siberian tundra in the Arctic Circle, a 12-year-old boy died and at least 20 people were hospitalized after being infected by anthrax.
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The northernmost Alaska fire, a 200-acre (80-hectare) blaze along northwestern Alaska's Noatak River and about 80 miles (130 km) north of the Arctic Circle, was sparked by lighting on Thursday, fire managers reported.
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The balloon ascended 50 miles to the stratosphere and floated west over the Arctic Circle for five days, taking roughly 6 million high-resolution images of the PMCs before it landed in Western Nunavut, Canada.
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"In this remote part of the planet, fires are far more a function of climate change rather than changes in land management, due to the very low population density in the Arctic Circle," Smith said.
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Why I Canoed 1,200 Miles to the Arctic Circle to Report on Climate Change (by Brian Castner) The best view of climate change's impact on our earth might be from the seat of a canoe.
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Sea ice extent in the Arctic is near record low levels for June, numerous wildfires are being tracked in Siberia above the Arctic Circle, and new evidence suggests Arctic permafrost is melting faster than expected.
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By November 6, three B-52s were back in the high north, flying into the Arctic Circle over the Barents Sea with Norwegian F-16s and with US Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
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The close relative said Bulgarov left home for a second time in March this year, telling his family that he was traveling to find work in Labytnangi, a Russian mining settlement near the Arctic Circle.
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The longest stretch of the Mackenzie River without human settlement is the section between Fort Good Hope and Tsiigehtchic, over 200 miles of gorge, wind, mud, rain, and grizzly bear that crosses the Arctic Circle.
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Eventually he was captured by the Soviets after a brief spell as a strongman in a travelling circus, after which he was accused of espionage and sent to the Vorkuta gulag in the Arctic Circle.
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To recap: Two crew members allege that they were, against their professional judgment, asked in one case to fly a mission to the Arctic Circle in an old airplane that wasn't equipped for the job.
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That's what led him to travel recently across the country to Yar-Sale, just within the Arctic Circle, to report on stroganina, a Siberian delicacy: fish or reindeer meat frozen, sliced thin and served raw.
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With the outbreak of devastating wildfires that scorched the Arctic Circle, Sweden's political mainstream unexpectedly found an issue to animate voters in the same way the Sweden Democrats' relentless campaign against immigration had: climate change.
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Radio Sweden said on Friday that more than 230 fires were burning across the country, including in central counties and in Swedish Lapland, inside the Arctic Circle, threatening forests near the tourist center of Jokkmokk.
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Norwegian twins, Erik and Adam, drive their camper to an empty beach framed by mountains — like a South Seas paradise north of the Arctic Circle — and pull out their surf boards, claiming the virgin break.
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Pictures of the crimson water in the Daldykan river, in the Arctic Circle, quickly went viral over social media, and green campaigners said the incident highlighted how industrial development posed a risk to the environment.
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Meanwhile, Dennis Quaid has stepped into the role of "recognizable American actor who comes to the Arctic Circle town of Fortitude and recoils in horror," which was filled memorably in season one by Stanley Tucci.
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Several conservation groups have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of the Interior asking for an investigation into the Obama administration's approval of Royal Dutch Shell's drilling for oil in the Arctic Circle last summer.
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Image 2 of 2 HELSINKI – Sweden is fighting its most serious wildfires in decades — including blazes above the Arctic Circle — prompting the government to seek help from the military, hundreds of volunteers and other European nations.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOFOTEN, Norway — I took three flights to reach the Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) in the small fishing village of Henningsvær, high above the Arctic Circle in Norway's Lofoten archipelago.
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During an interview with CBC, Barbara Frei, the director of the McGill Bird Observatory, explained that snowy owls typically breed in the arctic circle, and migrate south to Canada during the winter to enjoy warmer temperatures.
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Rolls-Royce says it will test the truck's cold weather durability in the Arctic Circle after Christmas, and then will take it to the Middle East later in 2017 to see how it handles desert conditions.
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There is some evidence connecting such "warm Arctic, cold continents" weather pattern to increased air and sea surface temperatures in the Arctic, which some researchers argue is having downstream effects far away from the Arctic Circle.
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And that's surprising because scientists previously thought that humans from that period hadn't made it past 55 degrees north — a latitude that isn't far north enough to be considered part of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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For the last five years, since leaving the United States, Bradley has found himself in Egypt during a revolution, on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Norway and in the backwaters of France's second division.
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As a reporter who has worked in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa and made four trips above the Arctic Circle, I have had ample opportunities to meet people from all walks of life.
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We document our entry into the Arctic Circle, which is the geographic region where the sun does not set on the day of summer solstice and does not rise on the day of the winter solstice.
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On Saturday, the world's first floating nuclear power plant set sail from St. Petersburg, Russia on a multi-year, 3,000-mile journey to Pevek, the northernmost town in Russia that sits well within the Arctic circle.
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Bomber, he said, was a mix of gyrfalcon, a highly prized, nonmigratory species often found north of the Arctic Circle, and the more common saker falcon, a migratory species that crosses the Arabian Peninsula every winter.
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Klaus (November 15)When Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) distinguishes himself as the postal academy's worst student, he is stationed on a frozen island above the Arctic Circle, where the feuding locals hardly exchange words, let alone letters.
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This, and that the hotel was listed on the boutique hotel booking site Mr & Mrs Smith, convinced me that this remote spot near the Arctic Circle would make a thrilling vacation for my family of four.
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Father and son scientists Sergey and Nikita Zimov found surprising slushy and muddy turf near the far eastern Russian town of Cherskiy, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, when the ground should have been frozen.
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Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone is packaged with an interview with the ecologist Carlos Duarte, who says, essentially, that it is far too late to save the vibrant life that thrives in the Arctic circle.
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Just this January, 300 people were banned from marching in a LGBTQ pride event in the Arctic circle, in the town of Salekhard, Russia under the anti-propaganda ban, which has banned pride parades for 100 years.
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ON THE SWEDISH shore of the Baltic Sea near the Arctic Circle, work has started on a SKr1.4bn ($150m) pilot project aiming to help Sweden become the first country in the world to produce fossil-free steel.
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The prince will leave wife Meghan Markle back in the U.K. as he heads north on February 14 to see how the marines are training in the demanding and hostile environment 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle.
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BMW's upcoming i4 electric car battled the snow and chill in northern Sweden just last week, while Volvo has also used the harsh conditions of the Arctic circle to push the limits of its vehicles during testing.
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Tiksi, a coastal town of around 5,000 people inside the Arctic circle, hosts a Soviet-era military air base that has been renovated in recent years as part of President Vladimir Putin's drive to remilitarize the Arctic.
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In Iceland, Pence is expected to bring up incursions into the Arctic Circle by China and Russia amid growing tensions in the polar region over melting ice and access to minerals, a White House official has said.
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The exploitation of Arctic oil and gas resources and their transport to markets in Europe and Asia has become a major economic priority for Moscow as its hydrocarbon reserves below the Arctic Circle begin to dry up.
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The letters held an even greater significance for us at the time we wrote them, since the previous year I had used one to propose to Marianne from just above the Arctic Circle aboard the carrier Midway.
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Gravely "touched above the Arctic Circle, and we learned quite a bit up there," Lewis said at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the US Naval Institute in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
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While the larger SeaWalls spans over 300 murals in 12 different countries, SeaWalls Churchill is unique because it is the first time the project has been brought somewhere "sub-arctic," an area just south of the Arctic Circle.
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Gunhild Rosqvist, a Stockholm University professor in geography, said the glacier lost four meters (13 feet, 2 ½ inches) of snow in July alone as Sweden endured record temperatures that triggered dozens of wildfires, even in the Arctic Circle.
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The fossilized remains of the bird were found on Canada's remote Axel Heiberg Island, perched high in the Arctic Circle, during an expedition led by John Tarduno, chair of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester.
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In recent years, numerous studies have been published that show rapid Arctic warming may be altering weather patterns far from the Arctic Circle, including potentially altering the jet stream winds that steer storms across the U.S. and Europe.
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Rather than telescopes, he would use microscopes, which he began taking with him on trips to the White Sea, near the Arctic Circle, to study protozoa along the shore—research that could be conducted with minimal state interference.
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This summer, Off the Map Travel is introducing three-night trips on Norway's Lofoten Islands, a mountainous and fjord-filled region above the Arctic Circle, based in tepee tents decorated in the style of the indigenous Sami people.
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It started with the Soldiers of Odin, a group that began in Kemi, a town on the fringe of Lapland near the Arctic Circle that saw thousands of asylum seekers coming through from the Swedish border in late 2015.
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The wildfires started in early June, and more than 50 have now cropped up in parts of Sweden inside the Arctic Circle, according to the European Space Agency, which has kept tabs on the situation with satellites from space.
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This city near the Arctic Circle is popularly known as the hometown of Santa Claus — who, much like the romances portrayed on The Bachelor, is an extremely improbable fantasy that entire cultures have nevertheless deluded themselves into believing in.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The 26 miners who were trapped in a Russian coal mine above the Arctic circle have died and rescue operations have been halted after a third blast underground killed several rescue workers, emergency services said on Sunday.
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The shows have been hits with viewers in Norway, so its latest idea is to live broadcast the world's strongest tidal current, called Saltstraumen, near the city of Bodoe some 80 km (50 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.
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More than 15,000 service members were scheduled to participate in the exercise, which primarily takes place above the arctic circle that includes militaries from Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the United States.
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More than 15,000 service members were scheduled to participate in the exercise, which primarily takes place above the Arctic Circle and includes militaries from Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the United States.
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The USS Harry S. Truman became the first US carrier to sail above the Arctic Circle since the 1990s when it arrived in the sea in late 2018 for Trident Juncture, NATO&aposs largest exercise since the Cold War.
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In his official biography, Voronenkov lists a series of overlapping jobs he held — deputy mayor of Naryan-Mar in the Arctic Circle, law professor in St. Petersburg and adviser to the judicial department under the supreme court in Moscow.
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As The Siberian Times reports, this year the permafrost melt has been three times more extreme than usual above the Arctic Circle, causing erosion near graveyards of a town where smallpox wiped out 40 percent of the population decades ago.
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Even though it's located in the Arctic Circle, Svalbard's temperature is expected to increase from an average 21 degrees F (-5.9 C) to 38 degrees F (3.3 C), and rainfall is expected to increase by 40 percent, by the year 2100.
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"Growing atmospheric warmth in the Arctic results in a sluggish and unusually wavy jet-stream that coincided with abnormal weather events," it said, noting that the changing patterns have often brought unusually frigid temperatures to areas south of the Arctic Circle.
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As a result, China has positioned itself as a "near-Arctic" country and is spending billions— mostly on a fleet of Arctic icebreakers—to claim a place in the region despite having no territory within 153,000 miles of the Arctic Circle.
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Preliminary information indicated that the aircraft&aposs blades collided with another helicopter that had taken off beforehand from the same pad in Vankor, above the Arctic Circle about 2,600 kilometers (1600 miles) northeast of Moscow, UTair said in a statement.
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Sea ice in the region is presently at its lowest levels on record for this time of year, and hundreds of unprecedented fires have burned forests in the Arctic circle this summer — releasing prodigious amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
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Those efforts gained momentum in 2008, after the US Geological Survey published a report, Circum-Arctic Resources Appraisal, indicating that as much as one-third of the world's undiscovered oil and gas lay in areas north of the Arctic Circle.
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As the ship sets out on a voyage to the Arctic Circle, some of the other members of the crew are far more villainous, unpleasant, treacherous and unfortunate than any characters created by authors of adventure stories in the 19th century.
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That's the idea behind the Open Scandinavian Championship in Winter Swimming, which takes place every year in a 221-meter pool cut out of a frozen lake in a small Swedish town only about 225 miles from the Arctic Circle.
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"We found that for the weather station in the far north, in the Arctic Circle, the current heat wave is just extraordinary – unprecedented in the historical record," said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).
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Some 1,400 miles north, hard-core cold-weather surfers ride the (salty) waves of Norway's Lofoten Islands, which lie just above the Arctic Circle — but it's the country's Vosso River that may have the most dramatic freshwater breaks of all.
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Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and BP drilled in deeper waters in the Gulf of Mexico, invested in Canadian oil sands and sent teams to explore in places as far-flung as the Arctic Circle, Azerbaijan and Equatorial Guinea.
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As she took in the breathtaking archipelago north of the Arctic Circle that is dotted with mountains, carved with fjords, and circled by sea eagles, she remembered she was looking at one of the fastest-warming regions of the planet.
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The 31-year-old Ulsom, from the Norwegian town of Mo i Rana, just south of the Arctic Circle, has finished in the top seven in all of his past Iditarod races, and was the fastest-ever rookie in 2013.
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As a start, it's being staged above the Arctic Circle, far from any previous traditional NATO battlefield, and it raises to a new level the possibility of a great-power conflict that might end in a nuclear exchange and mutual annihilation.
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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013 found that boreal forests, which form a ring around the world just below the Arctic Circle, have been burning at rates that are unprecedented in 10,000 years.
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That sky-high smoking rate correspond to a spike in lung cancer rates, with 300 people receiving a lung cancer diagnosis in Nunavut between 103 and 2009 — giving the 30,000-person territory a rate that is double that of Greenland, which had the next-highest prevalence of lung cancer of those areas studied in the report.. The international study, which studied health outcomes for Inuit in the Arctic Circle — which includes parts of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the United States — found that cancer rates all around the Arctic Circle were disproportionately high.
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So says a report "Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA), produced under the auspices of the Arctic Council, a scientific-policy club for the eight countries with territory in the Arctic Circle, as well as observers including China and India.
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Image: Svalbard Seed Vault/Crop TrustThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle has received a major deposit of nearly 22015,22015 seed samples from around the world, bringing the total number of seeds stored at the remote facility to nearly one million.
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If there's one moment when Blue Planet II puts its thumb on the scales, just a little bit, it's when the series invites us to look in on the plight of some fellow mammals, just trying to get by above the Arctic Circle.
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The fires have since died down and firefighters from France, Germany and Portugal left Monday, at the same time as residents from a small town near the Arctic Circle who had been evacuated because of the wildfires were allowed to return home.
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"The [Global Fire Assimilation System] data shows that typically fires in the Arctic Circle occur in July and August, so it has been unusual to see fires of this scale and duration in that part of the world in June," Parrington said.
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Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE visited Norway on Thursday to see firsthand the impacts of climate change in the Arctic Circle.
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John Cappelen of DMI recorded a maximum temperature of 63 degrees Fahrenheit (17.3 degrees Celsius) at nearby Qaanaaq on June 12 and 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) on June 13, which is exceptionally warm for 85033 miles into the Arctic Circle.
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Plus, the wildfire smoke is hitching a ride on mid-to-upper atmospheric winds to as far away as the U.S. Temperatures climbed into the 90s Fahrenheit above the Arctic Circle on Tuesday and Wednesday, and remained unusually high again on Thursday.
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A new study warns that the ice sheet covering the massive island, which lies mainly above the Arctic Circle, is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may become "a major contributor to sea level rise" around the world within two decades.
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The Arctic is warming at twice the average rate of the rest of the planet, and the new research adds to the evidence that the ice loss in Greenland, which lies mainly above the Arctic Circle, is speeding up as the warming increases.
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Mr. Wu said Finland's top attractions for Chinese travelers include reindeer safaris and an area near the Arctic Circle that is promoted as the home of Santa Claus (and which Xi Jinping visited a few years before he became president of China).
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But centralization is proving tricky in a country that is sparsely populated in some areas, and where the health care system was designed to serve even the most remote parts of a country that stretches all the way up to the Arctic Circle.
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Fur experts say the uptick in coyote demand began with Canada Goose parkas, with their distinctive Arctic Circle patch, a brand that went big in 2013 when model Kate Upton famously wore one over her bikini on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit Issue.
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A just-published study warns that the ice sheet covering the massive island, which lies mainly above the Arctic Circle, is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may become "a major contributor to sea level rise" around the world within two decades.
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Canada Greenland ALASKA Taimyr Peninsula Moscow SIBERIA RUSSIA Krasnoyarsk Ukraine Kazakhstan Mongolia China By The New York Times On his last flight, an engine and the radio gave out over the Taimyr Peninsula, a realm of featureless Siberian tundra far above the Arctic Circle.
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Beginning in 232, long before the war, Icarda had begun to send seed samples — "accessions" as they are called — to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the so-called doomsday vault, burrowed into the side of a mountain on a Norwegian island above the Arctic Circle.
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This is because "even though the Arctic Circle contains large amounts of untapped resources, as well as being a potential trade route, the full potential of the Arctic to become commercially viable seems to be at least a decade away," the Stratfor analyst said.
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Curated by Duygu Demir, Yürükoğlu's self-described "1980s fun house" of a solo show at ARTER, Flow Through, builds on the artist's many trips to the Arctic circle — "a last place on Earth," as she calls it in an interview in the show's catalogue.
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But for the sake of sanity — who has time to think about exactly how much carbon dioxide they spew every day, and how much this carbon dioxide is helping to ensure that the cutest, cuddliest animals in the Arctic Circle will eventually become extinct?
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PSKOV, Russia — After a teenager blew himself up inside a branch of Russia's secret police near the Arctic Circle late last year, a freelance journalist hundreds of miles to the south drew what she thought was "an obvious and banal" conclusion in her weekly radio commentary.
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VORKUTA, Russia (Reuters) - Russian railway worker Andrey Bugera had a singular goal: get to pension age so he can leave the polluted, frigid coal mining town above the Arctic Circle where he works and move south to live out even a brief bit of retirement in comfort.
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In retrospect, Mr. Morales said he knew Mr. Buckel had been upset as recently as February when he began discussing articles about the environment, for instance one about how 96 percent of human beings breathe polluted air and another about the Arctic Circle experiencing record breaking temperatures.
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This was just about the perfect setting for such a study, since the contrasts were so extreme: Tromsø is located more than 180 miles north of the Arctic Circle, meaning there is virtually no sunlight in Tromsø during the winter and no darkness in the summer.
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As part of Exercise Trident Juncture, for example, the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman and its flotilla of support ships were sent into the Norwegian Sea, the first time a US carrier battle group had sailed above the Arctic Circle since the Soviet Union imploded in 1991.
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CreditCreditPhotographs by Leslye Davis/The New York Times UNSTAD, Norway — This was all new to Tim Matley, a thin and boyishly blond Australian, who found himself above the Arctic Circle for the first time in this remote village with as many surf shops (two) as sheep farms.
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"The unusual thing about this year has been the number and distribution of fires north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia, Alaska, and more recently in Canada," Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, told Mashable at the end of July.
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That restriction has proved difficult for some because few homes in Fairbanks, a city just 6.53 miles (26.5 km) south of the Arctic Circle by road, are equipped with air conditioning, and a heat wave in the region has driven temperatures into the 22.6s and 22004s Fahrenheit.
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They were inevitably rushing to catch a plane or rent a car that would take them somewhere we aren't usually supposed to be, whether it's a printing press down the street in Queens or a seed vault buried under 400 feet ice in the Arctic Circle.
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He spent time in remote locations above the Arctic Circle, and translated that desolation and danger into tracks that threaten to blanket the entire frequency spectrum: blizzards of formless noise, bursts of rapid-fire distorted beats, mountainous immovable sustained tones, crashes and blasts and phantom aircraft.
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The Marine Corps and Navy have spent more time in the European Arctic, with Marines deploying on rotations to Norway since 2017 and an aircraft carrier sailing above the Arctic Circle for the first time since the 1990s during the massive NATO exercise Trident Juncture in 2018.
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In 2015, having learned of the existence of an Iron Curtain Trail for bicyclists, also known as Euro Velo 13, he decided to traverse its 10,000-odd kilometers, threaded along the borders of the former Soviet Union, from above the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea.
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BEAVER, Alaska — In a season of short days and long nights, life in this village just below the Arctic Circle hugs tightly around the places of light and warmth, in living rooms by roaring wood stoves or the school gym where a basketball can always be found.
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"We have examples of how humans have adapted genetically to new diets and to extreme environments, such as high-altitude living in Tibet or life near the Arctic circle in Greenland," said senior study author Rasmus Nielsen, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The rise to power of a party which started out less than four years ago as a protest movement against global copyright laws, and whose election campaign is partly crowdfunded, would create shockwaves felt far beyond this island of 336,000 people on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
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Perhaps, like me, you are one of those travelers who also takes great pleasure in meticulously designing a trip, in marinating in all the little delicious possibilities of getting from point A to point B. Oh, that restaurant supposedly serves the best carnitas tacos north of the Arctic Circle?
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President Trump, key officials in his administration and leading Republicans support drilling in the ANWR, an expanse of 2202 million acres of land — about the size of South Carolina — above the Arctic Circle in Alaska, 2628 million of which was set aside for potential oil exploration and development.
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Read more: Photos show what life is like in a Siberian diamond mining town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, which is home to 40,000 people and where the sun is up for 20 hours a day in the summerTen of Alrosa's 12 mines are in Yakutia.
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For example the USAF Rising Star is the air service's lone tugboat, used for the two months of the year that ships near Greenland's Thule Air Force Base can access the port there — 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Thule is the northernmost deepwater port in the world.
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To take just one example, in 22015, when Gazprom needed to deliver gas from a new field above the Arctic Circle, it decided against a plan, which had been circulating for years, that called for building a short link to an existing network three hundred and fifty miles away.
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Even though it's a Scandinavian country that stretches far into the arctic circle, with a climate that is the polar opposite of the warm and wispy Spanish islands that give Balearic music it's name, Norway has become a surprisingly reliable home for genre's breeziest tunes in recent years.
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AMC's The Terror was one of the best TV shows of 2018, an ice-bound, eerie tale of men trapped above the Arctic Circle, turning on each other and trying to escape a malevolent monster (or possibly god) who wanted nothing more than to tear them to shreds.
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STOCKHOLM — As Europe grapples with near-record temperatures and sustained drought, Sweden has become the latest nation to confront a wave of wildfires as far north as the Arctic Circle, prompting the authorities to evacuate some villages and to appeal for help from neighboring Norway and distant Italy.
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Recently, a team led by archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered a 215,2000 year old woolly mammoth carcass which bears the telltale marks of death by humans, suggesting that our ancestors could have arrived far north of the Arctic Circle about 15,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Russia's expansion into the thawing Arctic has created geopolitical worries for the U.S. As sea ice thins in the Arctic Circle, the U.S. is competing with nations like Russia, China, and Canada for supremacy in the region and control over oil reserves up there than have become accessible.
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The standard theory among dairy scientists is that Europeans living closer to the Arctic Circle needed milk's vitamin D to compensate for the short days' lack of vitamin-D-carrying sunlight, but other researchers point out pockets of lactose tolerance that evolved in West Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
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The low cost of living here allows us to travel pretty frequently, and I will totally choose mountains and snow over a tropical vacation any day, so three girlfriends and I are doing the Lofoten Islands and Tromsø next month… figured we should visit the Arctic Circle while it still exists.
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This past March, photographer Ken Bower was in eastern Greenland visiting his friend, an Inuit hunter named Kunuk, giving him the rare chance to witness and document the damage climate change has already done to the way of life in this area, about 68 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
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A photo of what appears to be Scandinavian folks taking a dip in a river while reindeer â€" the cold-adapted, antlered, herbivores â€" cooled off in the water beside them is perhaps the best example of just how hot it is in parts of the Arctic Circle right now.
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In fact, Russia's military expansion in the Arctic Circle far exceeds that of any other nation, and it has other nearby nations alarmed – particularly Norway and Canada, which have vast swathes of largely unpopulated northern territory as well as offshore oil, gas and mineral interests they worry may be increasingly challenged.
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Last year, for instance, the USS Harry S. Truman, an aircraft-carrier that usually hangs around the Middle East, was abruptly called home midway through her deployment cycle and then suddenly sailed into the Arctic Circle—the first carrier to do so in 27 years—to join massive NATO exercises.
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Among Zinke's non-commercial and non-military trips were three charter flights, including one from Las Vegas to his home state of Montana and another to the US Virgin Islands as well one including a bipartisan congressional delegation led by the Senate and natural resources committee to the Arctic Circle.
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And though it wasn't included in this year's report because it happened too recently, extreme drought and heat wave this year in Europe saw temperatures climb above 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) all the way to the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and unprecedented drought in north and central Europe.
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And this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used a meeting of foreign ministers here in Rovaniemi, just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, to assail China for what he called its "aggressive behavior" in the region and pointed to Beijing's actions in other parts of the world.
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Anybody old enough to remember the Cold War, when Alaska was for decades at the front lines of national defense with an array of listening posts and ready-to-scramble air bases just across the Arctic Circle from the Soviets, also already knows the feeling of being a hot nuclear target.
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A senior State Department official said the U.S. had seen a threefold increase in political prisoners in Russia since 2014, along with the use of Soviet practices such as stripping prisoners of parental rights and keeping at least one prisoner detained in a location above the Arctic Circle, despite harsh conditions there.
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Billed as an oversight visit for the science committee, the May 33–14 trip included a series of closed-door sessions for the politicians to inspect facilities and learn about federally funded science conducted at research hot spots in the Arctic Circle, as well as social events for the lawmakers and their families.
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In the most extreme scenario of more than 4 degrees C (7.2 degrees F) warming by 2080, certain tropical disease-carrying species of mosquitoes currently found only seasonally in the US South and southern Europe could greatly expand their range, as far north as Alaska and northern Finland—north of the Arctic Circle.
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I hung mainly with a group that called itself the Amazon 9, all of whom were lesbians and liked hiking, hanging out in the woods, swimming; at one point we were dropped by airplane above the Arctic Circle and kayaked down the Kobuk River for 13 days to get back to civilization.
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For the most part, the Arctic Five have asserted their intent to settle any disputes arising from contested claims through peaceful means, the operating principle behind the formation in 1996 of the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental organization for states with territory above the Arctic Circle (including the Arctic Five, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden).
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America's ties to the frigid, 800,000-square-mile territory go back to the 1940s and have historically been military in nature; the U.S. Air Force maintains its northernmost base in Thule, 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, which also hosts radar systems that scan for nuclear missile launches against the U.S. homeland.
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The earth's temperature has changed drastically in its 2250 billion year history, from the Huronian Ice Age that covered vast portions of the planet in ice for nearly 1953 million years, to a period about 2195 million years ago, when scientists believe that palm trees and crocodiles were native above the Arctic Circle.
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This Is Kiruna: How to Move a City is a delightful little film made by the Swedish government that focuses on the massive infrastructural effort required to relocate a city—and one above the Arctic Circle no less, where it's very cold, covered in deep snow, and completely dark for some of the year.
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In a separate network of underground tunnels about 19963,21996 miles away, in the northern Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Circle, Russia conducts its own such experiments, meant to model the key chemical and physical actions that occur in the run-up to a full-blown nuclear explosion, without actually causing one.
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But the new player in the region is China, which has styled itself a "near-Arctic" country — a self-appellation U.S. officials find absurd: One senior State Department official called it "a made-up, fantasy definition" worthy of George Orwell; another rattled off the precise distance between Beijing and the Arctic Circle (22018,2750 miles).
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The Truman's trip above the Arctic Circle after a two-decade absence, like the USS Theodore Roosevelt's participation in the Northern Edge exercise in Alaska for the first time in a decade, is significant, and recent Navy exercises in Alaska laid the groundwork for future training up there, but whether the Navy will be back for good is uncertain.
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Contributing Opinion Writer I know you've been wondering what on earth has been causing the outbreak of wildfires in 2018, a year that has set records not just in California (which has experienced the largest blaze on record) but also in Scandinavia, where in July a fire broke out for the first time north of the Arctic Circle.
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Fortitude is that rarest of creations — a show that's one genre in one scene and a completely different one in another The series, a co-production with the United Kingdom network Sky Atlantic, is set in the town of Fortitude, an isolated burg north of the Arctic Circle, primarily occupied by people with deep, dark secrets that they want to keep hidden.
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Scientists Add 50,000 Seeds to Arctic Doomsday Vault Because Everything Is AwfulThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle has received a major deposit of nearly 50,000…Read more ReadLocated about 620 miles from the North Pole in Svalbard, Norway, the World Arctic Archive has been built in "Mine 3," an abandoned coal mine close to the Global Seed Vault.
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Read more: Photos show what life is like in a Siberian diamond mining town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, which is home to 40,000 people and where the sun is up for 20 hours a day in the summerI rode the Trans-Siberian Railway from Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia and the third-largest city in Russia, to Moscow.
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It was cold, minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit, on this particular day in January, and I'd booked a half-day trip with Seven Fells Up, a small tour operator that conducts cross-country skiing and snowshoe treks in the ski resort area of Yllas, about 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle and about 500 miles north of Helsinki, the Finnish capital.
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There is global warming and it's dire The Earth's temperature has changed drastically in its 4.5 billion-year history, from the Huronian Ice Age that covered vast portions of the planet in ice for nearly 300 million years, to a period about 50 million years ago, when scientists believe that palm trees and crocodiles were native above the Arctic Circle.
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The recent fires that have ravaged North America's west coast, Europe, the Amazon and the Arctic Circle should have been enough, together with all of the other mounting evidence, to bring politicians to their senses and convince even hardcore climate skeptics that global warming is already impacting our world with even more dire consequences to come if we do not reverse course.
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There were some artifacts found at the Arctic Circle dating to 2000,21 years and some traces of human activity a bit further north which dated to 553,255 years ago, but outside of this meager evidence, archaeologists had little else to go on to indicate how early the first humans had actually arrived in the Arctic and how far north they had traveled.
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