Economics fuel Arctic sovereignty claims
WASHINGTON — As if leaders of Canadian and U.S. companies were not already preoccupied with making sure the $1 trillion in annual two-way trade between the world’s two largest partners moves as ...
ESA, NASA to Measure Arctic Sea Ice
Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data ...
New Report on the State of Polar Regions
ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) — The U.S. National Research Council has just released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the International Polar Year ...
Ice shelf disintegration in Antarctic
5 April 2012 - As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the ...
Explosion: North Sea Gas Leak
The French energy company Total boasted today that they have discovered the source of the natural gas leak, which is steadily casting a plume of natural gas into the air and a six-mile long 'sheen' ...
Arctic – geopolitical flashpoint?
The region is rich in oil, gas and minerals – but that does not necessarily mean there will be a geopolitical tug of war over the abundant natural resources, argues think-tank Slowly, but surely, ...
Shackleton’s Whisky
Painstakingly recreated from the original bottles which lay buried for a century next to Ernest Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica, an exact replica of Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt is now ...
