The drowned mountains, first identified in 1963 by U.S. researchers aboard a drifting ice station named Alpha, were first substantially investigated by Canadian scientists a quarter-century ago. The 1983 Canadian Expedition to Study the Alpha Ridge produced groundbreaking maps of the region, but [Jacob Verhoef]'s research team is seeking definitive evidence that the massive rock formation is geologically linked to Canada's established continental shelf. Alpha Ridge offers one of Canada's best chances to convince the international scientific community and other polar nations that this country's continental shelf continues for hundreds of kilometres across the floor of the Arctic Ocean. If the claim is accepted, Canada could -- given the rapid melting of the Arctic ice cap, and the growin...
... of climate change, sea ice on the Arctic Ocean is melting and creating a new political environmen...
Canadians have found some riches in the Arctic, says [Stephen Harper], but "what we've found so far is merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Managed properly, Canada's share of this incredible endowment will fuel the prosperity of our country for generations. Environment Minister John Baird said the Canadian Coast Guard is now helping to search for [John Franklin]'s old ships because not only are they an "exciting piece" of maritime heritage, but also because finding them may strengthen Canada's sovereignty claims in the Arctic. The push to assert Canada's Arctic claims has been strengthened by the fact the ocean's ice is melting rapidly. The Canadian Ice Service has reported an "unprecedented" opening in the Beaufort Sea, north of the Yukon-Alaska border. This year's melt is expec...
...The alarmist propositions that melting polar ice will rapidly make hitherto inaccessible ... activities in the high seas of the Arctic Ocean," (6) a "moratorium on certain new oil exploration...
... and when, between 1941 and 1945, the Arctic Ocean became a maritime theatre of war. . Following the ... a scientific reality, the region with its melting ice caps has ironically become more attractive eco...
... threatening the Arctic ecology, the melting sea ice opening possible year-round transit of the...2002. "The Northwest Passage Revisited." Ocean Development & International Law 33:145-64. . Keski...
... over, on, and under the ice of the Arctic Ocean. (9) Indeed, the Arctic played an important role i...The Arctic Ocean is melting, and it is melting fast.. It is no longer a matter...
Griffiths discusses whether the undoubted thinning of sea ice in the various waterways that make up the Northwest Passage will produce not only an increase in intercontinental shipping, but a shipping-based challenge to Canada's sovereignty over its Arctic waters. Griffiths argues that climate change presents no serious sovereignty problem in the Northwest Passage where commercial navigation is concerned. However, Canadians may well have a need to prepare for new security and environmental challenges associated with a gradual increase in summer-months foreign shipping, which offers little or no challenge to Canada's occupancy of the high Arctic Archipelago.
... that ice cover was thinning in the Arctic Ocean as a whole, and in the Canadian Archipelago as wel... [in the belief that] the ice is not melting during our lifetime and .. it is best to leave the...
...Nuclear submarines prowled the Arctic Ocean while long-range bombers circled overhead. Runways... because of climate change, which is melting the Arctic sea ice, opening new shipping routes, a...
... future exploration activity in the Arctic Ocean. That is adverse because [it] misleads non-special...The accelerated ice melting now evident in the Arctic Ocean also opens opportu...
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