News Source: Leader Post Online
| 2 months ago
German vessels in the company of Russian icebreakers — widely reported Friday as a landmark commercial passage from East Asia to Western Europe via Arctic waters — underscores Canada's current inability in the Northwest Passage to match Russia's...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 2 months ago
Sept. 11 (Xinhua) The United States and Canada will conclude a joint 41-day exploration of the continental shelf and ocean basins in the Arctic, which may find evidence to support the two countries' claims to the rich oil resources sleeping under the...
News Source: Washington Post
| 2 months ago
Geological Survey still aboard the Canadian Coast Guard's Louis S. St-Laurent, said the group used advanced technology to precisely map unexplored territory. "From the seismic data, we're seeing features that we hadn't imagined existed," Hutchinson...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
The farther the shelf extends, the more ocean floor that nations can claim: either exploiting or protecting it from development. The Arctic is thought to have billions of barrels worth of undiscovered oil and a third of the world's undiscovered gas,...
News Source: Toronto Star
| 2 months ago
Breaking through heavy polar ice, a joint mission of Canadian and American scientists has explored unseen areas of Canada's Arctic sea floor, including what looks like an undersea mountain and volcano buried in thick sediment...Healy in the high...
News Source: The Indianapolis Star
| 2 months ago
Carmel teacher Christine Hedge never dreamed of helping to discover a mountain on the floor of the Arctic Ocean when she boarded the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy early last month. Learning to sleep through the constant chirping of the echo-sounding...