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Will ships sail through the North Pole by 2050?

Melting Arctic ice will create new sea routes, a new study says, including the potential for light ice-breakers to reach the North Pole. New Arctic shipping routes would still be seasonal rather than year-around.

Editor's Blog Managing the 'water planet'

Arctic ice shrinks to record low (+video)

Oregon cave discovery suggests lost ancient American culture (+video)

Native Americans arrived in at least three waves, finds DNA study

Arctic drilling: US setting policy to protect environment, indigenous people

What killed the woolly mammoth? A whole bunch of things, say scientists. (+video)

Beneath Arctic ice, scientists find an ecosystem never imagined (+video)

Alaska's tale of two cities: one desperate for fuel, another for big shovels

South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery

NASA plans to boldly go to the Arctic

Arctic sea ice at lowest point in thousands of years

How the Bering Strait influences Earth's climate

Why it's hard to tweet literature