For us to go over the top depends on two issues," he adds. "Will the science allow us to go over? And will we have the political will to go over? We may have the right to do it -- if we are willing to stand up to the Russians. Michael Byers, a University of British Columbia professor of politics and international law, says "the only thing stopping Canada from claiming undersea territory beyond the North Pole, if the science supports it, would be a negotiated agreement among the Arctic Ocean Five" -- Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway and the U.S. -- "to limit claims to extended continental shelves to 350 nautical miles from shore." Byers says such a deal "would avoid some potentially sticky disputes," but adds: "I would be very surprised if there is any agreement to this effect anytime s...
...Nuclear submarines prowled the Arctic Ocean while long-range bombers circled overhead. Runways...
The frightening models we didn't even dare to talk about before are now proving to be true," [Louis Fortier] told CanWest News Service, referring to computer models that take into account the thinning of the sea ice and the warming from the albedo effect -- the Earth is absorbing more energy as the sea ice melts. "And it's probably going to happen even faster than that," said Fortier, who leads an international team of researchers in the Arctic looking for clues to climate change.
My research continued and in the mid-1990s I began working with large multidisciplinary teams of oceanographers, geochemists and biologists. At that time I predicted that the Arctic was losing sea ice at a rate of about 30,000 square kilometres per year on average over the previous 20 years. Then I increased that estimate to about 70,000 square kilometres per year, or an area about the size of Lake Superior. This past summer another record was set with a loss of more than one million square kilometres of ice. This is an incredible reduction in the extent of sea ice and in ice thickness. I have the privilege of leading Canada's largest polar year project which is examining the phenomenon of flaw leads -- permanent areas of open water. Called the Circumpolar Flaw Lead system study, the p...
The Chukchi Sea is home to one of two U.S. polar bear populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is days away from deciding whether polar bears should be declared threatened because of global warming and its effect on the animal's primary habitat, sea ice. The polar bear's existence is increasingly threatened by the impact of climate change-induced loss of sea ice," said Margaret Williams, managing director of World Wildlife Fund's Kamchatka and Bering Sea Program.
The latest findings support an alarm issued last week by another climate expert at the University of Illinois that all-time records for maximum meltage of the polar ice cap will be "annihilated" by the time Arctic temperatures start turning colder in mid-September. The sea ice seems to be on this death spiral," he said. "And this is not some nebulous thing like global temperature rises. You can see this with your own eyes. "The absolute minimum is typically the first or second week of September," said [Mark Serreze], "but we've already set a record. That is amazing. That is just an eye-opener. We appear to be on the fast track of change."
... and when, between 1941 and 1945, the Arctic Ocean became a maritime theatre of war. . Following the ...
Views on the future of the Arctic range from dire predictions of a mad scramble for ... existed on the status of the Arctic Ocean and the northern territories bordering it. Because...
While providing plenty of rhetorical material, this sweeping statement isn't sufficiently defended. [Victor Suthren] fails to make the case that the role of the sea in our past and present compares with, say, Britain and Australia. Citing incursions by Chinese vessels, burgeoning cruise liner traffic that pollutes and disrupts northern eco-systems, and the declining capacity of the Canadian Forces to patrol and monitor the Arctic Ocean, Suthren makes a strong case that Canada's claims to the north will soon exist only on paper, if we don't strengthen our policies, diplomacy and equipment accordingly. One needn't accept Suthren's thesis -- that the oceans are our defining characteristic -- to enjoy many of the elements of his book. This is the only single-volume history of Canada's engag...
It's the first-ever commercial transit of the Northeast Passage by non-Russian ships, and it shortens the sea trip between East Asia and Europe by almost a third. It's the melting of the Arctic sea ice that has made it possible, although for the moment it's only possible for a couple of months at the end of the summer melt season, when the Arctic Ocean's ice cover has shrunk dramatically. But it is a sign of things to come. Canada's dispute over sovereignty in the Northwest Passage is actually with the United States, not with Russia. The Russians have absolutely no interest in the Northwest Passage, since they have their own rival, the Northeast Passage. But the United States used to believe that the Northwest Passage could be very useful if it were ice-free, so Washington has long main...
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