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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 smoothly as possible, now the commercial potential of the quickly melting Arctic has caught their attention. A survey of top business leaders on …

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 gathered help ensure the accuracy of ESA’s ice mission. The aim of this large-scale campaign was to record sea-ice thickness and conditions of the ice exactly …

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 (IPY) 2007-08, the first in over 50 years to offer a benchmark for environmental conditions and new discoveries in the polar regions. University …

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 satellite’s first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice …

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’ in the ocean surrounding the oil and gas platform in the North Sea; however, as fears of a catastrophic explosion …

75TH ANNIVERSARY MEETING & SYMPOSIUM POSTPONED 

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, climate change is opening up the Arctic. Greenland’s glaciers and ice fields are melting, sea ice around the North Pole is …

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 available with 50,000 bottles released for the festive season. The gruelling British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909 brought Shackleton and his team to the edge of …

ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2012) — A new NASA and University of Washington study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing the amount of freshwater in the Arctic enough to have an impact on the global “ocean conveyor belt” that redistributes heat around our planet. Lead author and oceanographer Jamie Morison of the …

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A bubble rose through a hole in the surface of a frozen lake. It popped, followed by another, and another, as if a pot were somehow boiling in the icy depths. Every bursting bubble sent up a puff of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas generated beneath the lake from the decay of …