Earth's Magnetic North Pole drifts again: What's causing this shift?
Scientists released an updated version of the World Magnetic Model (WMM) because they needed to adapt to these continuous ...
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Who Discovered the North Pole?
Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the North Pole. AGIP / Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York On September 7, 1909, readers of the New York Times awakened ...
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Diving Earth's Most Inhospitable Places—With Kids in Tow
This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. It started with a husband, a wife, and their dog. In 2010 divers Ghislain Bardout and Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout took ...
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THE QUEST FOR THE NORTH POLE
In the final bonus episode of The Quest for the North Pole, we travel to far northwestern Greenland to see the changing Arctic firsthand. Along the way, we'll see amazing wildlife, get frostbite ...