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href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - 14 Feb 2010 TIMEReal-world measurements have confirmed at least some of them: sea level is clearly rising, for instance, and the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - 14 Feb 2010 San Antonio ExpressThe North Cape, where the Arctic Ocean's Barents Sea and the Atlantic's Norwegian Sea merge, is about 1300 miles from the North Pole. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - 14 Feb 2010 Myrtle Beach Sun News...to see an Ivory gull on the Georgia-Alabama border two weeks ago. The gull winters and breeds in the Arctic Ocean and is rarely seen in this far south. href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - 14 Feb 2010 PhysOrg.comArctic Ocean off the coast of Greenland. Greenland's continent-sized icesheet is being significantly eroded by winds and currents that drive warmer water ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 25, 2010 Alaska Public Radio NetworkAs the sea ice pulls back in the Arctic Ocean, the rush to develop it has already begun. Russia used a submarine to plant a flag under the North Pole. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 7, 2010 Discovery NewsSea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean grew by an average of 13000 square miles a day last month. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 4, 2010 Seattle Post IntelligencerSuddenly, I'm bobbing buoyantly up to my chin in the Arctic Ocean like a cherry in somebody's piña colada. This rare patch of open water in the sea ice ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 27, 2010 TIMEThe weakness in multiyear ice also suggests that if the unfavorable winds and currents that caused the 2007 meltback should recur, the Arctic Ocean could ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 11, 2010 diehard gamefan (blog)The book is a fictionalization of what happened to a pair of exploratory vessels that tried to force the Northwest Passage and sail through the Arctic Ocean ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 10, 2010 ExplorersWebJim has decided that the daring attempt to cross from the northern shores of Canada to the very centre of the Arctic Ocean (a distance of 800 miles) is now ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 12, 2010 IGNThis time it is literal fallout from the Cold War — a Soviet bomber is shot down over US airspace in the Arctic Ocean, with the massive radiation from the ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 5, 2010 World Politics Review (blog)..."These funds will be spent on additional hydrographic and geophysical research in the Arctic Ocean," the ministry said in a statement. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 5, 2010 Scientific AmericanMethanotrophs like the ones pictured here might be able to prevent a massive "burp" of methane from the Arctic Ocean. Methane trapped in Arctic ice (and ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 4, 2010 MarketWatchClimate change is making it easier to navigate the Arctic Ocean, and some say the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans could be open in ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 2, 2010 The New AmericanIt read, “Should the present trend of sea ice melt continue, some models suggest that the Arctic Ocean could become near ice free in the summer time within ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 13, 2010 Monroe Evening NewsViewers may see eagles, owls and birds that have traveled from the Arctic Ocean. Participants should come dressed for the weather, Ms. Thiel said. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 1, 2010 SatNews PublishersBoth narrow and shallow, the Bering Strait allows a small amount of water to flow from the Pacific Ocean into the Arctic Ocean, and this warm water may play ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 12, 2010 Kenai Peninsula OnlineThese splits and especially the 4-6-7-10 split will routinely stand taller than an Arctic ocean iceberg, in front of, and in opposition to, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 20, 2010 Global Security NewswireA pair of nuclear-capable Russian bomber aircraft carried out a patrol run over the Arctic Ocean yesterday, ITAR-Tass reported (see GSN, Dec. 23, 2009). ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 23, 2010 Examiner.comThe Arctic Ocean ice cap is more vulnerable than ever, with the 2007-2009 summer melt reducing ocean area covered by the ice to an all-time low. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 19, 2010 Philadelphia InquirerInterior's Mineral Management Service has approved drilling in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea. Foes say that's too close to the Arctic National Wildlife ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 9, 2010 CBS NewsAverage air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean were much higher than normal for the month, reflecting unusual atmospheric conditions. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 11, 2010 Alaska DispatchFind Barrow and follow the coast west and south, passing from the Arctic Ocean into the Bering Sea and on to Bristol Bay and the Aleutian Chain. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 2, 2010 Media Matters for America...stated that the data from the past two years are consistent with the long-term negative trend that will result in ice-free summers for the Arctic Ocean. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 11, 2010 Oil & Gas JournalThe practice is intended to help control a blowout and to reduce spills into the Arctic Ocean. Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Ltd. applied to NEB on Oct. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 25, 2010 2TheAdvocate...but ignores the news stories in the same paper citing studies showing that the Arctic Ocean is estimated to be ice-free in 20 years (Oct. 15, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 6, 2010 Monroe News Star...with four to six days on land where you can go either to Denali National Park, Fairbanks and Anchorage or get all the way up to the Arctic Ocean. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 3, 2010 Daily Mail - Charleston (blog)Meanwhile, the IPCC and Al Gore have had to admit it lied about an ice-free Himalayas in 25 years, an ice-free Arctic Ocean in 5 years, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 2, 2010 Huffington Post (blog)...oil and develop whatever deposits may be discovered in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and beneath the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas of the Arctic Ocean. href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 5, 2010 Evangelical Covenant ChurchCovenant Church missionaries Tom and Janice Kelly, started his trip on June 30 in a town called Deadhorse, along Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 19, 2010 Community Impact Newspaper...sparsest swath of the US, beginning on the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas and concluding on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 4, 2010 Napa Valley RegisterFourth, Sabella asserts that the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean recovered 30 percent of its area this winter. The ice cover of the Arctic Ocean has shrunk ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 21, 2010 NewHampshire.comIn 1903, Anthony Fiala, a newspaper cartoonist and photographer from Brooklyn, NY, sailed to the Franz Josef Land islands in the Arctic Ocean with 38 men, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 28, 2010 PoliticoIt melted and no humans were involved. 6. The earth is not warming. It is cooling. 7. The Arctic Ocean used to be a balmy 74º. href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 21, 2010 The Batavian (blog)...north on the Dalton Highway, a 414 mile long, two-lane gravel road beginning outside of Fairbanks and stretching to the Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 26, 2010 Yale Environment 360But for this generation, it will be unremarkable that there is growing transit through the Arctic Ocean, that it's basically a functional ocean, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 6, 2010 Terre Haute Tribune Star...and a 2007 flag-planting at the North Pole by a Russian surface ship claiming economic rights to a soon-to-be melted Arctic Ocean. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 21, 2010 TravelVideo.tv (press release)On each of Adventure Canada's Arctic expeditions Adventurers will be given the option of a polar dip in the Arctic Ocean, an experience that not only earns ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 4, 2010 AHN | All Headline NewsChelsea, Quebec, Canada (AHN) - Foreign ministers of five Arctic Ocean coastal states will gather on March 29 at Chelsea in Quebec to tackle new thinking on ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 27, 2010 Plain DealerIn North America, literally the middle part of the continent was underwater and there was a shallow sea that extended all the way from the Arctic Ocean in ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 1, 2010 Daily Inter Lake...or a feedback mechanism where global warming increases natural source emissions from wetlands, permafrost and seabed deposits in the Arctic Ocean. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 29, 2010 John Birch Society...a massive study of the energy and resources of the North American continent — meaning by that the territory extending from Panama to the Arctic Ocean. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 23, 2010 Martinsburg JournalThis facility, located in the remote, icy cliffs of the Norwegian island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean, was designed to store vital heritage seeds, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 9, 2010 CNSNews.com14, 2009, says new computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 1, 2010 Publishers Weekly...perpetually ice-clogged waters, dispatched by naval officials who believed that the Arctic Ocean was ice-free beyond its frozen rim. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 10, 2010 SitNewsUS Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) is applauding an announcement from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of a major reorganization of the ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 21, 2010 BusinessWeek..."They have never demonstrated the ability to clean up oil in the Arctic Ocean," said Robert Thompson, chairman of Resisting Environmental Destruction on ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 24, 2010 Seacoastonline.comRussian scientists planted their nation's flag on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in August 2007. Russian papers claimed the start of a new "redivision" of ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 31, 2010 NewsoftheNorth.NetAll conjecture at best, say Drs. Soon and Legates, the latter producing another slide that showed a US Weather Bureau report stating: “The Arctic Ocean is ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 4, 2010 Pittsburgh Post Gazette...the interceptor missiles to stop a Russian missile headed to the United States over the Arctic Ocean, a possibility that had aroused anxiety in Moscow. ... Arctic Ocean set to be polluted soup by 2070 - 05 Aug 2009 New ScientistWITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, Picture Show: The Last Road North - 05 Aug 2009 GOOD...generally known as the Haul Road, covers 414 miles of rugged terrain from an area about 75 miles north of Fairbanks to the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Russian nuclear subs off US coast spark concern. - 05 Aug 2009 Canada.comOttawa told Canwest News Service this week that the missile tests have ``nothing to do with'' asserting control over the disputed central Arctic Ocean. Awesome Photos: Predators of Europe (Slideshow) - 05 Aug 2009 TreehuggerMireille captured this image on the Svalbard Archipelago, a group of frozen islands between the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Predators of Europe is the Freedom, isolation go hand-in-hand in far north - 05 Aug 2009 Canada.comTuk, as it is colloquially known, is situated on the Arctic Ocean near the confluence with the Mackenzie River. Tuk can only be reached by air in the summer Having a whale of a time: The amazing moment a polar bear feasts ... - 05 Aug 2009 Daily MailCaptured on board a cruise ship, the footage was taken in Magdalena fjord, Spitsbergen, a Norwegian island in the icy waters of the Arctic ocean. Caribou decline a natural cycle, says Nunavut wildlife director - 05 Aug 2009 Slave River Journal...caribou on the calving grounds may be due to a shift in calving ground locations or the herd joining the Ahiak herd on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Summer water fun in Jasper, Alta., includes rafting, hot springs ... - 05 Aug 2009 The Canadian Press...riding in the wake of long-ago explorers, traders and First Nations paddlers on a river that eventually finds home in the Arctic Ocean. The Senate Climate Bill Will Bring Jobs to Your State - 05 Aug 2009 Huffington PostGovernor Bill Ritter Jr. I met Governor Ritter last summer when we both traveled onboard the ship National Geographic Endeavor through the Arctic Ocean. Views on an Opening Arctic Ocean - Jul 29, 2009 New York Times BlogsHerb McCormick, aboard the SV Ocean Watch, Beaufort Sea: Greetings from above the Arctic Circle (70 02N, 141 51W). Arctic Sea Ice Reached Record Low This Winter - Jul 29, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle..."In both images, most of the oldest ice is in the western part of the Arctic Ocean basin. This arrangement is the result of the prevailing wind and ocean Devolution! Giant missing link, um, blob moving through Arctic ... - Jul 16, 2009 Examiner.comThere's a big, black, blob and it may be alive moving through the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. Thick and oily biological material are floating in the Arctic Arctic Climate Under Greenhouse Conditions In The Late Cretaceous - Jul 17, 2009 Science Daily (press release) (press release)ScienceDaily (July 17, 2009) — New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous – a period 80s on the Western Arctic Ocean Coastline - Jul 30, 2009 AccuWeather.comTuktoyaktuk is a Inuvialuit village along the shore of the western Arctic Ocean. It is very unusual for it to get that warm right along the coast of the Pair's major contribution to Arctic mission success - Aug 3, 2009 Henley Standard50, from Cuxham, helped ensure the success of a gruelling 74-day expedition that started in February across the floating sea ice of the Arctic Ocean. Canada-Russia Arctic frostiness thawing: Russian diplomat - Aug 4, 2009 StarPhoenixA Russian TV channel grab taken in August 2007 shows a manipulator of the Mir-1 mini-submarine as it places a Russian flag on the seabed of Arctic ocean at Airborne Expedition Chases Arctic Sea Ice Questions - Jul 27, 2009 Science Daily (press release)The oldest ice types now cover only 2 percent of the Arctic Ocean as compared to 20 percent in the 1980s." SIERRA, laden with scientific instruments, Peninsula cities need to plan for rising sea levels - Jul 21, 2009 San Jose Mercury NewsAll this water is coming mostly from melting ice in faraway places like Greenland and the Arctic Ocean, and the melting is accelerating. Arctic Could Lose Majority of Ice in 30 Years - Jul 13, 2009 Sci-Tech TodayIce will remain along northern Canada and Greenland due to powerful winds that sweep across the Arctic Ocean, forcing ice layers to slide on top of each Arctic's 'canary in a coal mine' - Jul 28, 2009 Toronto StarBetween 10 and 15 per cent of the Arctic Ocean is what Eert calls a data hole. It will take years' more research to fill it in with solid information, Navy task force studies climate change - Jul 31, 2009 Anchorage Daily NewsRear Adm. David Titley, the Navy's chief oceanographer and navigator, recently spent time aboard the Coast Guard cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska Canada is 'Arctic superpower': Cannon - Jul 23, 2009 Canada.comNoting the deal struck last year between the Arctic Ocean's five coastal states during a polar summit in Greenland, Cannon said Canada, Russia, the US, Canada, US on Arctic survey - Jul 26, 2009 Calgary HeraldThe US and Canadian governments have released details of a planned 42-day Arctic Ocean mapping mission as part of the two nations' efforts to extend their Guest column: Climate change cannot be ignored - Jul 30, 2009 DesMoinesRegister.comI just returned from a six-week journey that took me 30 miles south of the Arctic Ocean where I watched a herd of about a dozen musk oxen graze along the Ocean current shutdown may take place more slowly than previously ... - Jul 17, 2009 Gaea TimesJuly 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study by scientists has shown a dramatic increase in the amount of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean. Floating ideas on the Arctic - Jul 25, 2009 Indian Express...(The Sunday Express, March 8, 2009), I had the rare privilege of making a very special journey to the Arctic Ocean in the far north early this month. Wandsworth pole racer raises £25K for ChildLine charity - Aug 3, 2009 Your Local GuardianA 42-year-old has completed a 350 nautical mile (403 miles) footrace across the Arctic Ocean to the magnetic North Pole, raising £25000 for ChildLine in the A Postcard From the Pleistocene - Jul 24, 2009 New York TimesAt this moment we are at a place called Duvanny Yar some 250 kilometers upriver from the Arctic Ocean. It's a site where a meander in the Kolyma has exposed Council calls for better Arctic shipbuilding regulations - Jul 18, 2009 Anchorage Daily News...rules for construction of ships that ply the Arctic Ocean, where thinning ice and increasing resource development should accelerate commercial shipping. Search for legendary explorer's plane - Aug 3, 2009 The NationalThe French-built Latham seaplane crashed into the Arctic Ocean in 1928 as Amundsen — the first man to reach the South Pole and the first known person to Father & sons on trip of a lifetime - Jul 31, 2009 BCLocalNewsSetting foot in the Arctic Ocean might be the end goal, but the journey three Kelowna area motocross riders will US declassifies Arctic ice images - Jul 17, 2009 Anchorage Daily NewsSome 700 images show swatches of sea ice from six sites in the Arctic Ocean, with an additional 500 images of sites in the US The images can be seen here. UN Chief Poleward Bound - Jul 29, 2009 New York TimesSecretary General Ban ki-moon today announced plans to fly from Norway out over the Arctic Ocean to the Norwegian research vessel Lance A slow earthquake - Jul 22, 2009 Honolulu WeeklyIt's been a long winter for this 300-strong Inupiaq village, perched at the edge of the Arctic Ocean where the sun doesn't rise at all for three months and Local news in brief 072909 - Jul 28, 2009 Santa Fe New Mexican.comAdventurer and one-time Santa Fe nurse Darrell J. Gardner is about to start the next-to-last leg of his 5700 mile journey from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. NASA Ames project completes first flight - Jul 19, 2009 1590 KLIV Silicon Valley News...at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field say they have completed their first unmanned flight to study the receding ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean. Would-be polar explorers wanted for eco-expedition - Jul 28, 2009 Click GreenExplorer Jim McNeill is hoping to lead an expedition through the inhospitable landscape to the farthest point from land on the Arctic Ocean – described as Ice pockets choking Northern Passage: officials - Aug 1, 2009 The Gazette (Montreal)Despite predictions from a top US polar institute that the Arctic Ocean's overall ice cover is headed The Ice Warrior Has a Detailed Plan - Jul 31, 2009 BNET UKMcNeill has already attempted to reach the centre of the Arctic Ocean in 2006. This attempt ended after, due to unseasonal conditions, he slipped into the Lake Superior toxin needs a global solution - Aug 2, 2009 Detroit Free Press...continuing global use sustains the concentration of persistent toxic pollutants in North American waters from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. US research vessel enroute to Bering Sea for climate change ... - Jul 13, 2009 Media Newswire (press release)...the 2004 IODP Arctic Coring Expedition ( ACEX 302 ), which drilled and collected sediment samples from the Lomonosov Ridge in the central Arctic Ocean. Ocean Conservation Expedition Funded by Rockefeller Family and ... - Jul 28, 2009 PR Newswire (press release)This crossing is testament to the warming of the Arctic Ocean and the global climate changes that the expedition is observing. Schrader continues in the Log Coast Guard Icebreaker Involved in Arctic Floor Mapping - Jul 16, 2009 VOCMThe Coast Guard's largest ice-breaker, the Louis S. St. Laurent is now based in the capital city and assigned to assist in mapping the Arctic Ocean floor. College Town - Jul 26, 2009 Worcester TelegramWhile in Siberia, the students and scientists will be based at the Northeast Science Station approximately 80 kilometers south of the Arctic Ocean on the Deadliest Catch: Discovery Channel States Bering Sea Is Cooling ... - Jul 26, 2009 NewsBustersUnlike the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Sea is always ice-free in summer. This year, the last of the free-floating ice melted on Monday, June 22. Hmm.. USA declassifies Arctic spy material - Jul 20, 2009 Barents ObserverAbout 700 images show swatches of sea ice from six sites around the Arctic Ocean. There are also 500 images of 22 sites in the United States. Interview: The Polar Bear's Future - Jul 19, 2009 The Environment ReportPolar bears on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. (Photo courtesy of Jessica K Robertson, USGS) Studies from NASA and many other US agencies report the Arctic ice OGJ Newsletter - Aug 3, 2009 PennEnergyWith respect to the Arctic Ocean and Alaska, we will continue to work expeditiously to address the environmental issues identified by the court in the US sub breaks through ice to surface in Arctic ocean - 25 Mar 2009 Charlottetown, The GuardianToday's photo gallery from the Canadian and international wire services includes a photo taken by the US of one of its submarines that experimented Catlin Arctic Survey Uses Equivital Physiological Monitoring - 25 Mar 2009 Cambridge Wireless (press release)The Survey will help scientists in refining their predictions of when the ice will cease to be a year round feature of the Arctic Ocean. Exxon redux - 25 Mar 2009 Grist MagazineThe federal government's own plans have estimated a 40 percent chance of a major spill in the Arctic Ocean, and stated unequivocally that technology does Earth Hour Week – why “Vote Earth�? - 25 Mar 2009 Fiji Daily PostThe disappearance of ice from the Arctic Ocean would happen as soon as 2050, only 40 years from now, so many of the extreme changes will be within our Modern thrill ride traces 1909 Arctic trek - 25 Mar 2009 Winnipeg Free PressIn 2005, Avery, four like-mined companions and 16 Eskimo sled dogs tramped 665 km across the Arctic Ocean in a re-creation of American Robert Peary's 1909 Adventurer faces hardest challenge - 25 Mar 2009 Get SurreyBy Oliver Florence A 500-MILE journey across the frozen Arctic Ocean is the latest challenge for an adventurer from West Molesey. Tim Moss, 26, is currently Retracing an explorer's North Pole steps - 25 Mar 2009 ReutersThe Arctic Ocean is a living, breathing thing. All this ice is being moved around by the currents and by the wind. It piles into itself, Consulate of Canada set to move to Landmark Square - 25 Mar 2009 Cayman Net News...most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Ice fishing in Michigan - 25 Mar 2009 MirrorShort of diving into the arctic ocean in your Speedo, you're not going to get much colder than you will if you stand or sit on a foot of ice in January when Whale may have left HK waters, says expert - 25 Mar 2009 South China Morning Post (subscription)Mr Hung said a whale has an innate sense of direction and would often swim to the Arctic Ocean, alone. But he said local experts would continue searching MAC’s Earth from Space exhibit - 25 Mar 2009 Sequim Gazette...and the grid-like pattern of Kansas farmland to the triangular shadows cast by the Great Pyramids and the sinuous channels entering the Arctic Ocean. Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Adventures Team Explore the ... - Mar 24, 2009 PR Newswire (press release)...for the beauty of its songs, and for the warmth of its social groups, and for their lifelong bonds to each other in the cold Arctic Ocean. Danish and Canadian scientists set to map Arctic Ocean. - Mar 17, 2009 Canada.comAll five countries with Arctic Ocean coastlines - Canada, Denmark, the US, Russia and Norway - have been accelerating their UNCLOS evidence-gathering Explorers break free from harsh weather and 'volatile' ice - Mar 24, 2009 Independent23 days into their arduous journey across the frozen ice of the Arctic Ocean, the three polar explorers of the Catlin Arctic Survey are making the most of Linking Climate Change in Siberia and Britain - Mar 23, 2009 PhysOrg.comOceanographer Dr Tom Rippeth explains that it's this northern branch that travels up the Western coast of the UK and then on into the Arctic Ocean, Voyage into the Arctic as summer ice vanishes - Mar 23, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald..."We might see an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2030 - within some of our lifetimes," said Mark Serreze, a geographer at the snow and ice data centre. Norwegian foreign minister to discuss Russia-NATO ties in Moscow - Mar 23, 2009 RIA NovostiThe discussion will focus on the controversial Arctic Ocean archipelago of Spitsbergen, which belongs to Norway, although Russia does not recognize Norway's Melting Arctic Ice May Unlock Energy, Ore And Shipping Lanes - Mar 19, 2009 Investor's Business Daily (subscription)Explorers centuries ago hunted for a route through the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of North America to Asia. But they couldn't break through the China and the Artic: The Awakening Snow Dragon - Mar 19, 2009 Jamestown FoundationThe Arctic Ocean is in a state of rapid flux that scientists have not seen in recent times. The Arctic is changing rapidly and this will have a profound Updates on Climate Research - Mar 20, 2009 NBC Washington...gas emission (primarily CO2 and Methane) scenario in the coming 50-100 years, the Arctic Ocean will probably be ice free by the end of this century. Brits set out on Arctic ice exploration - Mar 2, 2009 KTUUNews staff ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A British science team has begun a three-month expedition to measure the thickness of floating ice in the Arctic Ocean. Report on Arctic Ocean Observing System 2008 Released - Mar 11, 2009 CLIMATE-L.ORGMarch 2009: A report of the integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System (iAOOS) for 2008 has been prepared by the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board, one of the two Food supplies reach Arctic team - Mar 19, 2009 BBC NewsAfter waiting for three days, a twin Otter plane was able to land on the Arctic Ocean floating sea ice. "It's been a pretty grim time waiting for the Acclaimed Photographer Yassine 'Yazzy' Ouhilal Launches New ... - Mar 24, 2009 PR-USA.net (press release)From swimming in the Arctic Ocean to capture a surfer in action with a snowcapped background to driving 4000 miles across the Sahara desert in search of Arctic region neighbors vow more aid for polar bear - Mar 20, 2009 SmartBriefClimate change is the most pressing long-term threat to the survival of polar bears, five countries with territory that border the Arctic Ocean said in a New York Seas to Rise Twice as Much as Rest of US - Mar 15, 2009 National GeographicAdding to those global factors is an Arctic Ocean that appears to be melting rapidly, said Julien Boé, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arctic people must be consulted on climate change: UNESCO - Mar 14, 2009 HinduThe agency notes that for decades they have been witnessing a dramatic shift during the Arctic Ocean's open water season, as sea ice retreats further and Harper warns Russians after two bombers intercepted - Mar 23, 2009 Calgary HeraldIn 2007, Russia planted its flag on the seabed below the North Pole and resumed flights of strategic bomber jets over the Arctic Ocean, a practice that New Crystal Coin from Pobjoy Celebrates Life of Sea Turtle - Mar 16, 2009 NumisMaster.comSea turtles are found in all of the world's oceans except for the Arctic Ocean, and have been present on earth for tens of millions of years - since the Arctic fishing ban report places pressure on Canada - Mar 7, 2009 Calgary HeraldBy Randy Boswell, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 14, 2009 A US report urging a moratorium on Arctic Ocean fisheries north of Alaska is putting pressure on European Union: Opportunities and responsibilities in the Arctic ... - Mar 12, 2009 ISRIA (subscription)I believe that the International Maritime Organisation can assume a significant role in the Arctic Ocean. It is of key importance that binding standards are North-West Passage: An Arctic Obsession - Mar 17, 2009 HULIQThe search for the North-West Passage, the sea route in the Arctic Ocean which connects the North Atlantic with the North Pacific Ocean, has been sought by PREDATOR X - Mar 17, 2009 Weekly World News (satire)The fossil remains of this sea reptile were excavated from the permafrost of Svalbard, a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean. Placer Gold Corp. (OTC: PGCR) Announces Spin-Off and Special ... - Mar 18, 2009 MSNBC...within the entire Arctic Ocean Common area beyond the exclusive economic zone of the Arctic Ocean's surrounding countries called the "Arctic Claims. Moscow Moves to Assert Russian Control of Northern Sea Route - Mar 6, 2009 Eesti elu...a measure that constitutes the latest step in Moscow's campaign to assert its control over parts of the Arctic Ocean far beyond its coastline. Royal Geographical Society’s next expedition - Mar 20, 2009 Financial TimesIt was the longest sustained polar journey in history and almost certainly the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean. The attempt by Ernest Shackleton Sea level linked to strength of ocean circulation - Mar 5, 2009 Planet EarthWarm tropical waters flow northward, releasing hear to the North Atlantic region, and eventually flow into the depths of the Arctic Ocean. Replenished ice team head north again - Mar 20, 2009 IndependentWith this data they aim to predict more accurately than ever before how long the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cap will survive. They have been gathering data Alaska will be focus of Audubon Society lecture - Mar 15, 2009 Statesman JournalHe will present a slide show describing the wildlife and other natural resources on Alaska's North Slope and in the Arctic Ocean, and threats to these Arctic land is greening, says scientist - Mar 5, 2009 Earth & SkySkip Walker: You can think of the cold air mass that lies over the Arctic ocean as a big pool of cold air that spills onto the land, and the ice content of Fashion to die for in Greenland - Mar 3, 2009 New Zealand HeraldIn the winter it is possible to go sledding across the frozen Arctic Ocean, camp on the ice or even join traditional hunting parties. The incredible shrinking polar bear - Mar 21, 2009 IndependentBut this is now thought to be over-optimistic: the melting is accelerating so fast that many scientists believe the Arctic Ocean will be completely ice-free Scientists plan first NW Passage drive - Mar 14, 2009 PRESS TVA team of Mars Institute scientists is planning the first over land vehicle crossing of the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Ocean. UD featured in Arctic research publication - Mar 10, 2009 University of DelawareNumerous projects led by the College of Marine and Earth Studies, from tracking freshwater fluxes out of the Arctic Ocean, to modeling the interaction Seeking Earth's past by drilling in remote Arctic - Mar 21, 2009 Science Centric...formed 3.6 million years ago when a monster meteor, more than a half-mile across, slammed into the Earth between the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea. EU satellite blasted off from Plesetsk - Mar 17, 2009 Barents ObserverThe Russian Federal Space Agency said fragments from the booster rocket would fall in areas of the Arctic Ocean. The research satellite will help scientists Russian rocket launches European satellite - Mar 17, 2009 The Associated Press...launch with some trepidation following the 2005 botched launch of a Russian rocket which sent an ESA ice-mapping satellite crashing into the Arctic Ocean. Russia To Monitor US Arctic Submarine Exercises - Report - Mar 5, 2009 EasyBourse.comMOSCOW (AFP)--Russia's navy will monitor submarine exercises by the US navy to be held under the Arctic Ocean later this month, a Russian navy spokesman Ann tells of ordeal on the Arctic ice - Mar 5, 2009 Bradford Telegraph ArgusBy Will Kilner » A Bradford woman has revealed dramatic details of an exploration to establish how long the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice cover will remain a [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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