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Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Here the Americas show a general rise of four degrees to seven, creeping up to patches of 12 degrees across North America and climbing further still towards the Arctic Circle. Google Earth is painting in stark colours how climate change will affect... [22 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo The Ice Warrior team is embarking on a 500-mile Arctic trek using high tech planning tools to pick their way through the unforgiving terrain. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness
Photo A remote corner of the Arctic, the Northwest Passage, is being tackled by a brave band of explorers with the help of high tech planning software. As a team we have used the tool to visualise and brainstorm different events that we might face in the... [13 Mar 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo The team were trialling technology that will be used when the three-strong Vanco Arctic survey team makes its way to the North Pole next year. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Arctic tech gets talking
Photo A polar explorer attempting to traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice has sent the world's most-northerly as-live transmitted video message. UK explorer and environmentalist Pen Hadow (pictured right), accompanied by colleagues... [12 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo This team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the thickness of the Arctic ice. The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition team is pictured here demonstrating some of the equipment they intend to take with them. [31 Oct 2007]
Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition
Photo A team of polar explorers will travel to and traverse the North Pole next year to survey the Arctic ice. The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition will take 120 days, cover 2,000km and take roughly 10 million measurements of the ice's thickness via a... [17 Oct 2007]
