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Big Picture Science for Mar 17, 2025: Amazing Arctic

What’s it like to live on a block of ice, especially when it thaws? An environment writer shares his forty-year experience in the Arctic, including the time a paddling polar bear tracked him on a river. He describes the stunning beauty of America’s last truly wild place and the dramatic changes to the landscape he recently witnessed. Recent research has backed up his eyewitness accounts, as an arctic scientist presents the latest data collected from a part of world warming four times faster than the rest of the planet.

Guests:

* Jon Waterman – Author of Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis
* Twila Moon – Deputy Lead Scientist and Science Communication Liaison at the National Snow and Ice Data Center

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#PhotoOfTheDay: These stunning images made the shortlist for space photo competition 2024

Among the 30 to make the shortlist is Carina Letelier Baeza’s shot #Arctic #Dragon.

Taken at the Arctic Henge in Iceland, it shows an aurora, the result of a geomagnetic storm generated by a coronal mass ejection, which looks like a rearing dragon.

newscientist.com/article/mg263

"According to Marc Lanteigne, a professor of political science at the Arctic University of Norway, 'China has been trying to rework what the Polar Silk Road is all about and it has also started to take a more practical approach to the Arctic.'"

Warming US-Russia Ties Could Put China's Arctic Aims on Ice: Experts

scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/ via "South China Morning Post"
Photo: Shutterstock/SCMP
#PolarSilkRoad #Arctic

A study solves the mystery of the ‘lost’ arctic owls that appeared in northern Spain three years ago.

Analysis of the isotopes of their feathers rules out the possibility that they were born in captivity and suggests that they came from somewhere in the Arctic and may have arrived on a boat.

mediafaro.org/article/20250316

One of the arctic snowy owls that arrived in Asturias. | Juan Villar Sordo/SEO Birdlife
El País · A study solves the mystery of the ‘lost’ arctic owls that appeared in northern Spain three years ago.By Esther Sánchez

A doctor was deployed to an #Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its #secret purpose.

🏗️ Building a “city under the ice,” as Camp Century has been called, was an unprecedented feat of #engineering.

⚡  A #nuclear reactor, transported slowly for 138 miles (222 kilometers) across the ice sheet and installed beneath the surface, powered the base.

👉 edition.cnn.com/2025/03/15/sci

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#Greenland, #science, #military, #energy

CNN · A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purposeBy Katie Hunt

[12:09] Greenland party leaders unite to reject Donald Trump annexation move

All five parties in Greenland’s parliament have issued a joint statement rejecting President Donald Trump’s latest effort to take control of the strategic Arctic island.

independent.ie/world-news/gree

#five #Greenland #DonaldTrump #Arctic

Irish Independent · Greenland party leaders unite to reject Donald Trump annexation moveBy Associated Press