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Science Buzz Scientists say the ice at the North Pole is on course to fully melt during this summer. It'd be the first time in human history that a boat could reach the North Pole. It's a worrying sign of global warming, but also makes Arctic drilling for oil and gas all that more likely.
Science Buzz The mythic trash pile growing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is now twice the size of the U.S. Hopefully all the trash will soon coalesce into some type of floating island so that the entire population of the Maldives can be moved there once global warming destroys their homeland. Silver linings!
Science Buzz Could polar cities be the fallout shelters of the climate change era? In a development that could be a major boon to the fleece industry, a group of futurists, scientists, and planners has proposed building sustainable campus-like villages throughout the Arctic hinterlands to save us from the coming environmental apocalypse. Construction on the first will begin in Longyearbyen, Norway, in 2012. If these plans are carried out, the incidence of polar warfare seems certain to rise.
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