OTTAWA AFP — Two ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change. The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere...
OTTAWA AFP — Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday an ambitious plan to discover and tap mineral, oil and gas riches believed to be hidden beneath the cool Arctic. "We know from over a century of northern resource exploration that there is gas in the Beaufort Sea, oil...
LONDON AFP — British researchers have drawn up the first detailed map of areas in the Arctic that could spark border disputes over extensive oil and gas deposits, they said Wednesday. Experts from the International Boundaries Research Unit IBRU at Durham University in northeast England produced the map to...
MONTREAL AFP — Two masses of ice together measuring almost 20 square kilometers seven square miles have broken off an Arctic ice shelf, the biggest breakup of Arctic ice in three years, Canadian officials announced. The chunks broke off from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on the coast of...
WASHINGTON AFP — There could briefly be no ice at the North Pole this summer, a US scientist said Friday, an event that would mark a new stage in the melting of the Arctic ice sheets due to global warming. "We could have no ice at the North Pole...
PARIS AFP — Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday. The eruptions -- as big as the one that buried Pompei -- took place in 1999...
KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland AFP — With the race for Arctic resources intensifying, the region's indigenous Inuits are raising their voices and demanding that nations bordering the Arctic Sea stop stealing their land and respect their way of life. Arctic waters could hold 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and...
OTTAWA AFP — The World Wildlife Fund on Tuesday urged Canada to postpone the sale of oil and gas rights in the Beaufort Sea, worried the drilling areas would overlap with key Arctic habitat for polar bears and whales. "This sale is premature due to the absence of a...
WASHINGTON AFP — John Negroponte, the US deputy secretary of state, will travel to Greenland for an international conference next week about territorial claims in the oil-rich Arctic, the State Department said Wednesday. "Negroponte will lead the United States delegation to the Arctic Ocean Conference hosted by the Government...
MELKOEYA, Norway AFP — When Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro fired up the world's northernmost liquefied natural gas plant here last year it was hailed as an industry pioneer. But turning Arctic gas into gold has proven anything but simple. "It is true that we've had some problems with...
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. -- Arctic Cat Inc. (Nasdaq: ACAT) today announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 7 cents per share of common and class B common stock. The dividend is payable on or about June 2, 2008, to shareholders of record...
MONTREAL AFP — Arctic sea ice is melting "significantly faster" than predicted and is approaching a point of no return, conservation group the World Wildlife Fund WWF warned in a new study released Wednesday. The volumes of the Greenland Ice Sheet and ice in the Arctic Ocean were estimated...
GENEVA AFP — Illegal fishing of cod and pollock in the Arctic is a transnational crime that is putting the health of fisheries at risk, a report published Wednesday by conservation group WWF shows. The illegal activity is also adding pressure on fish stocks that are already feeling the...
Statement of Jeff Miotke Deputy Assistant Secretary, Science, Space, and Health U.S. Department of State Committee on House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education April 2, 2008 Mr. Chairman and Members of this Committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to address the...
LONDON AFP — The Arctic Monkeys were celebrating Tuesday after the indie rockers from Sheffield received a record seven NME Award nominations, including best album and best track. Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been nominated for 'Villain of the Year' alongside Prime Minister Gordon Brown, his predecessor Tony Blair...
TROMSOE, Norway AFP — Global conservation group WWF called on Tuesday for a moratorium on all new oil exploration in the Arctic, insisting that the environmental risks to the sensitive eco system there were too great. "The WWF is formally calling for a moratorium on new oil and gas...
TROMSOE, Norway AFP — Indigenous Arctic populations worry about the environmental cost of developing the region's rich energy resources but pragmatically say they deserve a cut of the profits. "The agenda is the agenda of the oil companies," said Geir Tommy Pedersen, head of the Sami Council, which represents...
FAYENCE, France AFP — A French explorer was forced Tuesday to call off a scientific expedition to the North Pole after his airship broke from its moorings on the Riviera and crashed into a nearby house. Jean-Louis Etienne told reporters at the scene of the accident that his planned...
PARIS AFP — The dramatic loss of the Arctic ice cap may have been triggered by disruption to the thermal layers of atmosphere stacked over Earth's far north, according to Swedish research to be published Thursday. The study, published in Nature, offers a new explanation for the rise in...
MONTREAL AFP — The "shocking" record loss of Arctic sea ice was Canada's top weather event in 2007, Canada's environment ministry said Thursday. Each year for the past 12, Environment Canada has published a list of the top 10 climate or weather phenomena to impact Canada that year. ...
