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You Can Go on the Ultimate Heli-Skiing Trip in Greenland with Bode Miller and Chris Davenport This Spring

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For many, a week of heli-skiing is the ideal ski trip. When you add doing it in Greenland, staying on a luxury yacht, and rubbing elbows with Bode Miller and Chris Davenport, it becomes the ultimate trip. That’s exactly what EYOS, a private superyacht charter company is offering. Highlights of the trip include staying onboard a former Arctic Research Vessel […]

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Brent Thomas | October 10, 2022
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Why Hakuba Valley, Japan Is The Real Deal For An International Snow Holiday Destination 

Brought to you by HAKUBAVALLEY When skiers and snowboarders alike think about an overseas pilgrimage to ski deep powder, Japan springs to mind. ‘The Land of The Rising Sun’ can sometimes be seen as a mythical place where ski-dreams are made. Waist deep powder, face shots, onsens, ramen, is there much more to say? Yes, there is.  When it comes […]

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Rouchelle Gilmore | January 17, 2022
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Well Known Polar Explorer Killed After Falling Into Deep Crevasse While Guiding in Greenland

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Well-known Belgian polar explorer and guide Dixie Dansercoer died on Monday after falling into a crevasse about 155-miles (250km) north of Upernavik, Greenland. “Dixie fell into a deep crevasse last night. A rescue operation was launched, but unfortunately, it was too late. We have received confirmation of this from Greenland.” Stefan Maes, who looked after Dansercoer’s press relations, told Belgian […]

SnowBrains | June 9, 2021
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Polar Bears, Now Mating With Grizzly Bears, Might Survive Climate Change

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Climate change has taken its toll on the polar bear population. Despite this, they have found a way to potentially survive its impact. Scientists have seen that polar bears are mating with grizzlies and passing on their genetic code. Rising temperatures have pushed the polar bear towards extinction, shrinking its habitat and limiting its access to hunting grounds. Dwindling polar ice […]

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Alex Mangels | April 16, 2021
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RIP: Renowned Climate Scientist Falls to Death in Greenland Crevasse

Renowned climate scientist and glaciologist, Konrad “Koni” Steffen, slipped and fell to his death in a crevasse in August 2020, while he was doing research in the Swiss Camp area of Western Greenland. During his prolific career, Steffen had credited close to 15,000 academic credits to his name during the decades he spent studying rapidly melting ice sheets in Greenland […]

Galen Carrico | August 25, 2020
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Brain Post: Check Out Saturn in the Summer Sky With the Naked Eye

Although most of the hype this summer has been directed at Comet NEOWISE, you may be able to see Saturn from your home now that the comet is beginning to fade from view. On July 28, 2020, I was able to see the ringed planet with the naked eye from my neighborhood in Northwest Reno, Nevada. Saturn, like fellow gas […]

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Galen Carrico | July 31, 2020
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The Ozone Hole Over the Arctic Right Now is the Biggest Ever Recorded

An ozone hole has developed over the Arctic and scientists are saying that it is the biggest such atmospheric opening ever recorded over the planet’s northernmost regions. It’s a rare occurrence that is formed by persistent cold temperatures in the polar region and unusually quiet ozone dynamics, NBC News reports. These factors have caused record depletion of Earth’s protective ozone layer […]

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WeatherBrains | April 11, 2020
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Skier Killed by Avalanche in Gaspésie, Canada

One skier was killed and another suffered minor injuries after both were caught in an avalanche in Quebec’s Chic-Chos mountain range on Wednesday, Feb. 19. CBC News reports that the skiers were part of a group of four skiers out for a ski in the Mines Madeleine area in Gaspésie provincial park when avalanche was triggered, killing one skier and […]

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AvyBrains | February 20, 2020
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