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Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.
So here's the challenge: be the first person to ever trek to the South Pole, North Pole and top of Mount Everest in one year. It's not so much the "first-ever" label that Eric Larsen is after, but attention for his favorite cause: saving the ice.
The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months
Police arrested a North Pole woman accused of shoving her friend out of a moving vehicle. According to a criminal complaint, 34-year-old Christina Louisa Martin and her friend had been drinking at a bar Tuesday night. When they returned to the car, Martin's dog was gone. The complaint said Martin was so upset at her friend about the missing dog that she shoved her when they started traveling again.
British explorers in northern Canada to measure the thickness of floating Arctic sea ice ended their expedition short of reaching the North Pole due to an early summer ice melt, the team said Thursday.
There’s one less great adventure left for somebody to conquer, thanks to two hardy Midwesterners who have become the first Americans to complete an unsupported trek to the North Pole.
A North Pole man was surprised when police accused him of stealing a car from a gentlemen's club in Fairbanks.
Ralph S. Plaisted, an insurance salesman turned explorer who in 1968 led the first expedition that indisputably reached the North Pole over the ice, has died. He was 80.
There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says.
Alaska State Troopers used lights and sirens to apprehend a North Pole man suspected of driving under the influence after he allegedly led them on a slow-speed chase that covered several lawns.
Over the years, Caroline Kennedy sometimes wondered about a third grader who wrote to her father, President Kennedy, worried that Russian bomb tests at the North Pole would kill Santa Claus.
In Hollywood, Santa Claus comes in all stripes, from the childlike Edmund Gwenn in "Miracle on 34th Street" to North Pole draftee Tim Allen in "The Santa Clause" flicks to gutter-mouth Billy Bob Thornton in "Bad Santa."
A British explorer said Tuesday he plans to carry out the most accurate survey of the thickness of the Arctic ice during a 1,240-mile trek to the North Pole.
Two small Russian submarines completed a risky voyage deep below the North Pole Thursday, planting their country's flag in a titanium capsule on the Arctic Ocean floor to symbolically claim what could be vast energy reserves beneath the seabed.
An ambitious expedition to bolster Russia's claims to much of the oil and gas wealth of the Arctic Ocean headed to the North Pole on Wednesday, plowing its way through unbroken Arctic ice behind a sturdy Russian icebreaker.
A wristwatch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after it floated ashore on the Faeroe Islands.
A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.
A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major" reason for the event. The Ayles Ice Shelf — all 41 square miles of it — broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic.
It's a name that needs no address. Everyone knows Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. So letters sent to the roly-poly icon find their way to the small town of North Pole deep in Alaska's interior, including those simply addressed to Santa. Last year, 120,000 letters arrived from 26 countries, not counting the thousands with no return address.
Replies from Santa hit by US child abuse fearsChildren writing letters to Santa at the North Pole this Christmas are unlikely to get a reply because of child abuse fears. Letters sent to Santa Claus, North Pole, will now no longer be forwarded to the Alaskan town of the same name.
Sex Scare Causes Children Who Write To Father Christmas Expecting A Reply To Be Left Disappointed Thousands of children worldwide who write to Father Christmas expecting a reply may be left disappointed - because of a scare over a sex offender.
Study: Arctic Ice Will Melt in 10 Years - The North Pole will turn into an open sea within a decadeCBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports that the explorers walked - and swam - 280 miles across the Arctic ice of the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska, drilling hundreds of ice samples as they went.
On thinning Arctic ice, U.N.'s Ban urges climate dealUnless the United States Congress quickly passes climate legislation, hopes for a final accord to replace the Kyoto protocol by December are evaporating faster than the arctic ice is melting.
Lacy underwear secret tool of polar expeditionArctic explorer Pen Hadow and his team are relying on a pair of lady's knickers to navigate their way to the North Pole after compasses failed.
Fossils of a Goliath That Ruled the Jurassic Seasscientists have confirmed that they have found two partial skeletons of a gigantic new species, possibly a new family, of pliosaurs.. More Articles
Team Battles Arctic Winter, Hiking 600+ Miles to Measure Melting Ice CapIt could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap. More Articles
Russia lays claim to the north pole, threatens to pull from UN convention on law of the seasChilingarov -- who in August 2007 used a remote-controlled submarine arm to plant a Russian flag made of titanium on the ocean floor at the North Pole at a depth of 4,261 meters (13,976 feet) -- wants to "present evidence to the United Nations within one year" that the North Pole …
Santa's Disgruntled Elf speaks OutSanta's lead elf, Fritz, gives an interview from the North Pole and he's a little perturbed. ZeitGeist Video
North Pole temps rising.The North Pole is warming up,the Soviet weather Bureau reports. Dec.9,1938
Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists. By Daily Mail Reporter. 8:24 PM 13th November 2008A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. The blueish-green glow was found over the ringed planet's north polar region just like Earth's northern lights.
Adventurer Ralph Plaisted Dies Polar pioneer Ralph Plaisted -- the first man to indisputably reach the top of the world -- has died at age 80.
1 Sep 2008 - North Pole has become an Island for first time in human historyGlobal warming has resulted in the North Pole becoming an island for the first time in human history - as revealed by startling satellite pictures taken three days ago showing the shocking ice melting extent.
Earth Facts--Strange But TrueIn 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe. About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea. A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
North Pole Free of Ice in Five YearsIce at the North Pole melted at an unprecedented rate last week, with leading scientists warning that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2013.
Meltdown in the Arctic is speeding upIce at the North Pole melted at an unprecedented rate last week, with leading scientists warning that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2013.
No ice at the North PoleIt seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes. by Margaret Munro, Canwest News Service. Wednesday, June 25, 2008The Arctic seabed is as explosive geologically as it is politically judging by the "fountains" of gas and molten lava that have been blasting out of underwater volcanoes near the North Pole.
5 Countries Agree to Talk, Not Compete, Over the Arctic Diplomats from the five countries bordering the Arctic Ocean adopted a declaration on Wednesday aimed at defusing tensions over the likelihood that global warming will open northern waters to shipping, energy extraction and other activities.
Canada launches claim over disputed sea-bed Arctic ridge[Excerpt:] - A year after Russia's controversial flag-planting dive to the North Pole seabed to assert ownership of a sprawling underwater mountain chain, Canada is launching a less brazen but potentially more effective counterclaim for control over parts of the disputed Arctic r …
Mars' north pole is layered, scientists say. By John Johnson Jr. May 16, 2008Scientists analyzing radar images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft have found as many as seven distinct layers of ice and dust beneath the north pole.
North Pole Could Be Ice Free in 2008You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility.
North Pole could be ice free in 2008"The set-up for this summer is disturbing," says Mark Serreze, of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). A number of factors have this year led to most of the Arctic ice being thin and vulnerable as it enters its summer melting season.
Real-life 'Iceman' Baffles DoctorsIt's an ability he discovered in himself as a young man 20 years ago.
Photo shows avalanche on Mars - CNN.comA robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said Monday.
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