How NATO soldiers are trained 75 miles north of the Arctic Circle

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Style

Among the many challenges NATO soldiers face in the unforgiving Arctic environment, frozen weapons pose a serious risk. Extreme cold can cause firearms to malfunction, leaving soldiers vulnerable.

I'd become the kind of adult my younger self would have pitied. A weeklong Arctic retreat helped me find my way back.

Tech Insider : Travel, Business
Stephanie Pensa is taking a selfie in Norway.
Stephanie Pensa was feeling lost and went on a hiking retreat in the Arctic to help her reconnect with purpose.

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See photos of the US Navy's rare blue nose tradition, which may also be its strangest

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The icebreaker SS Manhattan crushes through pack ice
The icebreaker SS Manhattan crushes through pack ice in the M'Clure Strait in the northwest territories of Canada.

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Inside the deadly Russian Arctic prison where Alexey Navalny spent his last days

Tech Insider : Politics
The IK-3 prison colony in the village of Kharp, located above the Arctic Circle, over 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.
Russian opposition politician, Alexey Navalny died in prison on Friday. The 47-year-old was held in a detention facility about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

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A tiny 'ice mouse' with teeth the size of sand grains survived some of the coldest temperatures when dinosaurs roamed the Earth

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A painting of Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, a duck-billed dinosaur, with an insert of the tiny Sikuomys mikros, a shrew-like animal, that illustrates a scene from ancient Alaska during the Cretaceous Period.
Sikuomys mikros would have had to dodge much-larger dinosaurs when it foraged for food.

James Havens

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