There will be many negative effects of global warming, but this climate change could also have a few benefits.

An essay on why the Spanish, French and English wanted to explore the New World.

There are misconceptions that have generated more ideas than true knowledge. There are obsessions that were set in motion the expedition, year after year, and who, despite having proved illusory, ended up changing the world. One of them was called "looking north-west passage." One of the fixed ideas that have animated the great geographical explorations in the last 400 years. An impossible challenge: crossing the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Northern Canada: millions of square miles of ice, tundra, islands, straits of ice covered most of the year.

William Edward Parry was an arctic explorer who in 1827 led one of the earliest attempts to reach the North Pole. He was born in Bath, England on 19th December 1790 became a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy, was knighted to become Sir William Edward Parry and set the record for the human exploration to reach the furthest north a record that stood for almost fifty years only being surpassed in 1875-6.

Satire about climate change.

Here are reasons why explorers decided to travel all the way to North America: The New World. They were crazy? Well, there’s bound to be that, but here are proper and the main reasons why explorers came.

Discusses sea lanes and straits, along with their strategic and commercial importance. Conflict potential and actual conflicts, along with other security threats, surround these areas. This article discusses sea lanes and related areas which are particularly prone to this, in particular, the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, the Turkish Straits, the Bab el-Mandeb, along with the South China Sea and the Northwest Passage.