October 19, 2005 As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound - by Clifford Krauss, Steven Lee Myers, Andrew C. Revkin And Simon Romero With comments by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Satellite destroyed after Russian rocket launch - by CNN.com With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) White House Watch: Cheney
Five hundred miles north of Alaska, a group of shipmates from the Coast Guard cutter Healy tossed a football on the blue-and-white, diamond-hard Arctic ice.
BARROW, Alaska (AP) - Hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle, biologists working in the frosty marshes of Alaska's North Slope are keeping a lookout for migratory birds that might bring a deadly avian flu strain to the United States.
