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...Arctic Watch lies at 74 degrees north on a big bay that opens on to the infamous Northwest Passage....
...Wildfires have recently become more active in northern latitudes of Canada’s Northwest Territories, including in the Arctic Circle....
...In the US, the National Weather Service forecast that an intense heatwave would affect the Pacific Northwest region from Friday, with areas of Oregon and Washington states experiencing unseasonable daytime...
...While many Arctic cruises carry hundreds of guests — and one, the Crystal Serenity, has carried more than 1,000 through the Northwest Passage — Secret Atlas limits its ships in the region to a maximum of...
...Other regions of the world have also experienced record temperatures this month, including in the Russian Arctic....
...“The engine for our west wind is the temperature gradient from the equator to the Arctic,” he explained. Warming in the Arctic means that “this engine that we have is weakened”....
...One of the most striking effects came at the end of June as a prolonged heatwave scorched western parts of Canada and the US Pacific Northwest....
...This summer the Pacific Northwest was hit by one of the most severe and sustained heatwaves in history....
...The very committed – or just mega-loaded and supremely crewed – might undertake a navigation of the Northwest Passage; an increasing number of private charters make for the Arctic Circle each year, and despite...
...From an outpost at Thule in remote northwest Greenland, Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen, his partner in exploration, launched seven research expeditions between 1912 and 1933, all epic in scale....
...We’re rightly proud of the fantastic green spaces and rich heritage across the borough of Walsall and being just the third Unesco geopark to be declared in England is really special.”...
...There is already visible evidence of the impact of climate change, such as the melting of the Arctic ice, which is opening up northern trade routes including the Northwest Passage....
...Property buying guide Northwest Queens — from Long Island City and Astoria to Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights and Forest Hills — is rapidly gentrifying....
...Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find a way through the Northwest Passage — the fabled route between the Atlantic and Pacific, cutting through the Arctic Ocean — was conceived as an act of imperial...
...The earnings power concentrated in the central London boroughs of Westminster or Kensington & Chelsea is well known....
...The buildout of the Quintillion fibre-optic data cable, which runs from Japan to London through the Northwest Passage, north of Alaska and Canada, will open up a vast area for data storage....
...A Chinese research ship last year completed the country’s first transit of the Northwest Passage north of Canada, knocking seven days off the traditional route from New York to Shanghai through the Panama...
...Many hostels are run by individual London boroughs and rough sleepers must have a connection with the district to be admitted....
...Arctic exploration was an obsession of the time and his the best-equipped of all those sent from Britain. Neither of his ships, nor any of his 128 men, was seen again....
...For centuries it was a grail for explorers, a sea route threaded through the ice and islands of the Arctic Archipelago to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans: the coveted Northwest Passage would open...
...Archipelago during his search for the Northwest Passage....
...Natural diamonds are extracted from millions of tonnes of rock that is dug out of large open pits mostly in Botswana, the Northwest Territories of Canada and Russia....
...Dreaming of the Arctic conditions he confronted, I am gently rocked to sleep....
...Alaska The largest passenger ship ever to attempt to navigate the Northwest Passage set sail from Seward, Alaska, last week....
...The all-over patterns of “Calligraphy in White”, “Arctic Plain”, “Wild Field”, “Trembling Space” and “Northwest Drift” are lyrical abstractions hinting nonetheless at constellations, electromagnetic fields...
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