The ends of the Earth: Arctic journey reveals beauty, climate change reality
Jack McClintock Correspondent Call me, Ishmael. In the summer of 2006 a research vessel named Akademik Ioffe cruised the High Arctic gathering oceanographic information about the Polar Ocean floor. It was a fast double-hulled Russian spy ship that had been sold to a commercial enterprise after the fall of the Soviet Union. My wife and I took a berth aboard the Ioffe to pursue my dream of exploring territory in that legendary part of the world. We drove north out of Worcester for seven hours to the capital city of Ottawa in the province of Ontario, Canada; then took a seven-hour jet flight due...
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