US and Canada Need to Discuss Northwest Passage
October 6 | The Seattle Times This is an opinion editorial by Floyd McKay, a journalism professor emeritus of Western Washington University. He explores the significance of the Northwest Passage....
Northwest Passage is Open
September 1 | Canada.com The United States National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that the Northwest Passage is more completely open than ever before. Just last week....
Canada Asserts a Presence in the Northwest Passage
July 11 | Wall Street Journal Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that six to eight ships will patrol Canadian Waters in the Arctic and the intentions to build a deep....
New Clues to the Franklin Expedition
June 28 | National Post The "Franklin Expedition" was an attempt to map the Northwest Passage, a ship route through the Canadian Archipelago, providing direct passage from Europe to Asia.....
Arctic Sea Ice Record Preserved in the Mud
October 18 | BBC News A team of scientists from the University of Plymouth is using new techniques to learn about the history of Arctic sea ice by studying the....
Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low Levels
August 20 | CTV.CA The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that Arctic sea ice is at the lowest level ever recorded in the satellite record -....
Ice-Free Northwest Passage
June 27 | Geology.com The Northwest Passage is a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In the past it has....
Sonar Mapping of the Northwest Passage
September 23 | CBC News Canada North The Canadian Coast Guard ship Amundsen is cruising slowly through parts of the Northwest Passage collecting detailed bathymetry data. They say that they are....
Canada Will Monitor Northwest Passage Traffic Remotely
September 30 | AFP Canada will be using detection technology to monitor ship traffic in the Northwest Passage as early as next year. These underwater listening devices will....
Rubber Ducky Accident Yields Wind & Current Data
June 30 | Times Online UK In January 1992 a shipping accident released nearly 30,000 rubber duckies into the Pacific Ocean and for the past 15 years they have been turning....
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