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- 10. Passage To The Future Nov 7, 2014
- The explorers exit the Bering Strait and complete the Northwest Passage.
- 9. Striking Oil Nov 7, 2014
- A feature on the debate between oil workers and biologists on the industry in the Northwest Passage.
- 8. Melting Land Nov 7, 2014
- Increasing temperatures are causing the landscape to melt into the sea.
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USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) is a United States Coast Guard heavy icebreaker. Commissioned on 23 February 1977, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle along with her sister ship, Polar Star (WAGB-10). Her home port is Seattle, Washington .
The Sea of Ice, (German: Das Eismeer) (1823–1824), is an oil painting that depicts a shipwreck in the Arctic by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Before 1826 this painting was known as The Polar Sea.
The Polar Sea: With Gordon Pinsent, George Kourounis. The documentary is about sailing the arctic seas and how global warming is effecting natural living in the small communities as well as fauna life.
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There is a better option: Bring back the USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11). Rather than spending $150 million to buy plus untold millions more to modify the Aiviq, the Coast Guard should spend roughly $250 million revitalizing the Polar Sea and regain one of the most capable icebreakers in the world.
Two months after they began their journey, our explorers finally exit the Bering Strait and complete the Northwest Passage, but not before passing one last astonishing impact of climate change: an entire community sinking into the sea.
Polar seas is a collective term for the Arctic Ocean (about 4-5 percent of Earth's oceans) and the southern part of the Southern Ocean (south of Antarctic Convergence, about 10 percent of Earth's oceans). In the coldest years, sea ice can cover around 13 percent of the Earth's total surface at its maximum, but out of phase in the two hemispheres.
In polar oceans, seasonal melting of sea ice creates gaps in the ice cover, thereby allowing more sunlight to penetrate the surface waters. The favorable light conditions stimulate phytoplankton growth and yield surges in primary productivity.
