Two Arctic/North Pole scientific expeditions. Take your time and enjoy the Arctic! This beauty is fragile. Climate changes and global warming, you know, do gain ground.

Video #1: Jean-Louis Etienne’s Generali Arctic Observer

A famous French Arctic explorer Jean-Louis Etienne’s The North Pole balloon crossing from Spitsbergen to Siberia’s Yakutia in April of 2010. Check out the Generali Arctic Observer expedition website. More info on his landing and rescue operation in Siberia’s Yakutia, north from the village of Batagai, Verkhoyansky region, at eYakutia.com.

Video #2: North Pole + Nuclear Icebreaker Yamal + Magic of Arctic Ice

From Russia’s Chukotka via the North Pole to Scandinavia by the Russian nuclear powered ice-breaker “Yamal”. You may also want to go to the North Pole. Hurry up! The Arctic is melting fast. It sounds like a joke, but, unfortunately, it is not.

If you can recommend more videos with the awesome Arctic views, please, share. Leave your links in comments.

Another great Arctic news resource is George Lessard, a journalist based in Yellowknife, Canada. He works like a real broadcasting company. He is everywhere on the Internet, on Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, YouTube & many other sites. His main website is MediaMentor.ca. Recommend to follow him on his Twitter channels @Northern_Clips & @mediamentor… It was George, who shared the link to the below personal story.

Sault Ste. Marie resident, Ryan Paquette shares his experiences from the far north.
Downtown Resolute Bay

I am writing from the far reaches of the Canadian North, from a place called Resolute Bay, on Cornwallis Island, in Nunavut.

It is also known by its Inuktitut name, Qausuittuq (pronounced “cow-swee-took”), which means “place with no dawn”. The Inuit name is appropriate because this arctic community, with a population of just over 200, gets over two months of 24-hour darkness in the winter, and an equal amount of 24-hour daylight in the summer. (more…)

ColdUnited Flickr Pick: Drifting Ice

Kruiend ijs / drifting ice

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ColdUnited Flickr Pick: Greenland

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Greenland

 

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Wolrd Ice Art Championship 2010 in Alaska

I wish I would be there : ))
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This video slideshow is pretty old. It was uploaded in 2008. However, the event depicted in pictures is more older. An ice storm happened in Switzerland’s Versoix on Jan. 29, 2005.

Thanks to a Facebook friend Pietro I found this video on YouTube. Just enjoy an incredible spectacle that can be called “The Day After Tomorrow Near Geneva” :)

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Do you want a look to Yakutsk …

… Yakutsk –  coldest city in the world … Day and Night … live ?

  Screenshot Yakutsk

Yakutsk

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How Cold Was It?

Well it was -32C or -26F but with the strong windchill it was -52C or -62F.

 

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Pole of Cold: Oymyakon

pole of the cold - northen emisphere's coldest place

1 km from Oymyakon, Sakha (Yakutiya) russia

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Oymyakon:  Coldest town on earth

 

 Meteorological station Tomtor - google map: Tomtor

Oymyakon: – google map: Oimjakon

 

Is it dangerous to travel to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold in winter?

 

Read more: AskYakutia.com

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Winter Weather
Deep Daisy remains until Monday with snow and hurricane
 
9. January 2010, 18:08 Clock
The feared chaos is largely failed in Germany. Between meter-high snow drifts on Ruegen and a truck-mile traffic jam in the direction of Alsace, the winter is raging in Germany still capable. And another is announced only a few parts of the country clear. 

 

The Russians are tougher in taking - In the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk reign minus 31 degrees -  Is cycled anyway

The Russians are tougher in taking – In the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk reign minus 31 degrees -  Is cycled anyway.

 

After Deep has “Daisy” laid over Germany on Saturday, a huge snow blocked roads and submerged rail, is also no improvement in the weather for Sunday in sight. According to a forecast by the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach, and it continues to snow at temperatures between zero degrees at the North and Baltic Seas and minus ten degrees in the south and east. “Stay midwinter.

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