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Arctic OceanArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlNew 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 [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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