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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:40:56 GMT

Friday, September 3, 2010

No oil is reported leaking from the Woodward's Oil fuel tanker The Nanny aground in the Northwest Passage off the coast of Nunavut. The 110 metre (360 ft) tanker was carrying 9 million liters (2.4 million gallons) of diesel fuel to remote settlements in Canada's Arctic regions when it grounded on a sandbar. Last week the cruise ship Clipper Adventurer struck an uncharted rock in the same region, trapping 110 tourists and crew aboard for the two days it took the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker to reach the ship. On August 27th another Woodward's tanker, the Mokami, ran aground near Pangnirtung.

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"Fuel tanker runs aground in Canadian Arctic" — AFP, September 2, 2010
"Fuel Tanker, "Nanny" Runs Aground In Gjoa Haven, Nunavut" — NowPublic, September 2, 2010
Chris Windeyer, Nunatsiaq News. "Fuel tanker runs aground in Nunavut" — Montreal Gazette, September 2, 2010

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Inuk hunter adrift on arctic ice floe

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:45:57 GMT

Canada

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"Rescue mission underway for stranded Resolute hunter" — Nunatsiaq News, January 24, 2010
Patrick White. "Arctic hunter stranded on ice floe" — Globe and Mail, Jan. 24, 2010
"Nunavut hunter's rescue nears: wife" — CBC.ca, January 24, 2010

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73M-year-old fossilized fish found in Canada

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:55:36 GMT

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Canada

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Randy Boswell. "Arctic fossil ield yields sea serpents, shark teeth" — Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, August 22, 2008
"Life In A Temperate Polar Sea: A Unique Taphonomic Window On The Structure Of A Late Cretaceous Arctic Marine Ecosystem" — Medical News Today, August 20, 2008
Dave Grant. "Coral Reef Fossils - Devon Island, Canada: Plankton, Seabirds and Icebergs" — Brookdale Community College, August 2006

Karen Chin, John Bloch, Justin Tweet, Jaelyn Eberle, Stephen Cumbaa. Benthic-pelagic coupling in the upper Cretaceous high arctic; evidence from a suite of unusual polar coprolites. Geological Society of America, 2004; Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5: 380.

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Canadian military exercise NANOOK 2008 travels through uncharted waters

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:35:21 GMT

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Canada

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"Ambulances, helicopters buzz around Iqaluit as Operation NANOOK wraps up" — CBC News, August 25, 2008
Andrew Mayeda. "DND/CF" — National Defence and the Canadian Forces, August 19, 2008
"Media Advisory: Canadian Forces Launch Operation NANOOK 2008" — MSNBC Wire Services - msnbc.com, Aug. 19, 2008
"Fletcher Attends Launch Of Operation NANOOK 2008" — Charleswood–St. James–Assiniboia, Aug. 19, 2008
"Calendar of Events - Veterans Affairs Canada" — The Canadian Press, August 19, 2008
Bob Weber. "Military, civilian agencies practise for maritime disasters in Arctic manoeuvres" — The Canadian Press, August 17, 2008
"CTV.ca" — The Canadian Press, Aug. 16 2008
"NationTalk - Canadian Forces and Partners operate in the Eastern Arctic - General - Native Newswire" — Media Advisory NationTalk, August 6, 2008
"NANOOK of the North" — The Canadian Press, July 24, 2008

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Arctic ice levels at record low opening Northwest Passage

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:22:52 GMT

Sunday, September 16, 2007

This animation is comprised of Envisat ASAR mosaics of the Arctic Ocean for 2005, 2006 and 2007 and highlights the changes in sea ice. The ice-free areas appear as dark gray and the sea ice areas as light gray.
Image: ESA.

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), 200 satellite images from the Danish National Space Center (DNSC) indicate that the Arctic ice levels are at an all time low, since the first images taken in 1978, and as a result the Northwest Passage has completely opened up for the first time since humans began to record history.

The images have shown the melting of the ice has "dramatically increased" more than previously thought and that by 2030, all of the summer ice could be gone with the region being completely ice free by 2070. Researchers call it an "extreme" situation and say that the ice is now shrinking at a level of about three million square kilometers a year, up from one million square kilometers per year in 2005.

"The strong reduction in just one year certainly raises flags that the ice may disappear much sooner than expected," said DNSC spokesman Leif Toudal Pedersen in a statement.

The new findings have put Canada and the United States at a standoff, both laying claim to the passage because it could be a valuable resource for the shipping industry. The passage goes through the boundaries of both nations. In 1985 diplomatic relations on the passage were strained after a U.S. icebreaker passed through without the U.S. notifying Canadian officials.

As a result, the Canadian military is building two new bases at both ends of the areas they claim to be theirs. There will also be at least six new naval patrol ships built, that will be stationed in the passage.

The U.S. claims that regardless which country boundaries the passage passes through, the waterway should be open to anyone who wants to use it.

"We believe it's an international passage," said U.S. President George W. Bush.

Denmark, Norway, and Russia all also lay claim to the vast amounts of minerals, natural gas, and oil.

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Northwest Passage#Effects of climate change

Gethin Chamberlain. "Ice melts opening up Northwest Passage" — Telegraph.co.uk, September 15, 2007
Jamey Keaten. "Arctic Ice Melt Opens Northwest Passage" — Associated Press, September 15, 2007

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