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Focuses on Norway, above the Arctic Circle where the sun is out all night in summer, as a destination for golfers. Author's experience playing golf at Lofoten Golf Links in Hov, Norway; Comments of Frode J. Hov, the course's founder and managing director; Background on Hov's idea to open a course; Reference to the half-dozen Norwegian courses north of the Arctic Circle; Places to golf in the midnight sun in Norway, Sweden, Finland and North America. INSET: A Midsummer Night's Green.

Byline: Bhargavi Kerur Having learnt a lesson from the radiation-induced premature closure of Chandrayaan-1 moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to land the mission's 2014 sequel on [...]

Science blog (Clive Cookson): The main science-related event of the past fortnight, while I've been on holiday, has been the 'big freeze' affecting the normally temperate regions of the northern [...]

Tired of the same old tourist destinations? Here is your chance to try something unusual. The once isolated north and south pole regions are now open for enthusiastic tourists. In [...]

Ozone depletion describes two distinct, but related observations: a slow, steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth's stratosphere (ozone layer) since the [...]

THREE Canadian adventurers have set a new record for fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole. Ray Zahab, 39, and his team-mates took 33 days and 23 hours to [...]

When talking about his upcoming trip to Antarctica, Patrick Hamilton likes to joke that he's heading south to escape a frigid January in Minnesota. That's because Hamilton, the environmental sciences [...]

PANAJI: An expedition of Indian scientists and researchers commencing shortly from Goa to Antarctica assumes significance as the team will focus on studying the rapid and worrisome melting of the [...]

Take up Buddhist chanting, learn to play the bagpipes, buy a Harley-Davidson - these are the traditional ways to deal with a looming midlife crisis. What a father of three [...]

WASHINGTON -- Hey, did you hear? Santa Claus is laying off Rudolph after the big night. Just as other employers do, Claus has to, ah, rein in costs. He can't [...]

Thursday event: Few artists have ever visited Antarctica, let alone made the trip six times as Stuart Klipper has. Over the course of 13 years, the Minneapolis photographer voyaged there [...]

Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard Forget about wanting it to look a lot like Christmas. By the time the weekend is over, it might look more like the North Pole. […]

One morning this winter, after waking up in a tent pitched near the top of the world, Tyler Fish will check a compass and ski north toward mist undulating over [...]

Byline: Hanh Nguyen Dec. 8--The score is Man: 0, Wild: 1 for Discovery Channel's 'Man vs. Wild' host. Bear Grylls, the British host of the survival show 'Man vs. Wild,' [...]

Byline: Lindsey Adkison Dec. 2--Even though Jekyll Island is down South, this year it will be transformed into the North Pole. It's all part of Atlantic Southeast Airlines' Adopt-A-School program, [...]

Everything has come big this year for the longest and toughest event in world sport, the Vendee Globe singlehanded non-stop round the world sailing race. At 30 boats it is [...]

During the Cold War, Moscow's leverage depended on its military might. Today, vast reserves of oil and gas, lying between the hungry markets of Europe and East Asia, have taken [...]

Ralph Plaisted, a Minnesota insurance salesman who relied on a snowmobile to get him to the North Pole in 1968 and became the first person who indisputably reached the pole [...]

Byline: Sarah Shemkus Sep. 11--NORTH FALMOUTH -- Marine technology company Teledyne Benthos was recognized yesterday for its contribution to a scientific research project aimed at discovering, among other things, the [...]

Ralph Plaisted and his team of snowmobilers braved deadly temperatures, dangerous jumps over water and hard slogs pushing their sleds over ice ridges in 1968 to become the first expedition [...]

Byline: MICHAEL ABATEMARCO, FOR THE NM Solitary alignment Michael Abatemarco I For The New Mexican Encounters at the End of the World, documentary about McMurdo Station in Antarctica, rated G, [...]

Byline: DOUG MELLGREN; Associated Press LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY -- One disconcerting thing about sightseeing on these frozen Arctic islands at the edge of the polar ice pack: The biggest tourist attractions [...]

Greenbelt, Md. -- The following information was released by the Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA): Over the last decade, NASA has launched a series of satellites to monitor the health [...]

BEIJING, Feb 11, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang Thursday called for greater efforts in boosting maritime activities, especially scientific expeditions to polar regions and the [...]

BEIJING, Feb 11, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang Thursday called for greater efforts in boosting maritime activities, especially scientific expeditions to polar regions and the [...]

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The following information was released by the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: Large paintings and photographs of the Norwegian Arctic and Antarctica will make [...]

Dec 02, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, [...]

LOS ANGELES, Nov 30, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- U.S. scientists said the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the Sun may be responsible for the uneven distribution of methane and […]

PASADENA, Calif. -- The following information was released by the California Institute of Technology: Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around [...]

Oct 13, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Thousands of scientists will meet in Melbourne in mid-2011 to discuss the state of the Earth, including its climate and atmosphere, water [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are [...]

By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - As climate change takes hold, even the mighty Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountain ranges are now losing their snow and […]

WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- With the majority of the world's scientists and countries now acknowledging global warming as a reality, its impact on the world's climate is coming under [...]

NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, Apr 24, 2009 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Editors Note: A photo is included with this press release. Consumers considering the polar regions as travel destinations often have […]

WASHINGTON, Apr 06, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called for enhanced protection of the Earth's polar regions and tighter controls on cruise […]

Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting explores global warming's effect on marine resources WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the eve of a historic 11-day meeting celebrating the 50th anniversary of the [...]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of [...]

ANTARCTICA, Jan 06, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China's 25th Antarctic expedition team arrived at Antarctica's Dome Argus (Dome A) zone after a 20-day march of about 1,250 km, leader […]

Jan 04, 2009 (WENN via COMTEX) -- Singer/songwriter JAMES TAYLOR's father once took part in an expedition to the South Pole. The You've Got a Friend hitmaker's dad was gone [...]

Jan. 4--Mountain climber Bob Pospischil, 60, didn't have much trouble two weeks ago making it to the top of the 16,066-foot Vinson Massif, the highest spot in Antarctica. The Nesconset [...]

ANTARCTICA, Dec 31, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A Chinese expedition was expected to reach the top of Antarctica's Dome Argus ahead of schedule thanks to the team's early arrival […]