A View From the Top of the World |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 8:00 am |
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On assignment for Green week, NBC News' Kevin Tibbles traveled to Barrow, Alaska and the North Pole to report on the shrinking polar ice cap and the race amongst nations to claim a stake in the regions future. Here is a taste of his journey en route to the top of the world a few weeks ago. (From Kevin Tibbles, NBC News Correspondent) There may have been a time when where I am headed was considered unimportant inconsequential and well, nowhere. But times seem to have changed for the high Arctic.I am sitting aboard a US Coast Guard C-130 transport as it makes its way through the sub-zero darkness of a murky morning en route to the North Pole, a place the Coast Guard has not scouted from the air for decades. These days, however, all talk is of the North. The ice pack is melting, the oil companies are clamoring, the cruise ships are tip toeing further and further into this barren territory; and no one seems to know who owns what or which flag goes where. Now [ Full article ] |
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