Science news articles about 'northern sea route'

  • CU-Boulder researchers forecast 3-in-5 chance of record low Arctic sea ice in 2008

    ... Research Professor Jim Maslanik said the Northern Sea Route -- the shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean ... Forecasting System group, which has been making Arctic sea ice forecasts for the past six years ...
  • Arctic sea ice annual freeze-up underway

    ... This year marked the first time since satellite measurements began in the 1970s that the Northern Sea Route, also known as the Northeast Passage, and the Northwest Passage were both open at the same ...
  • ESA satellites focusing on the Arctic

    ... data showed that the Arctic area covered by sea ice had shrunk to its lowest level since ... 2008, ASAR data revealed that the Northern Sea Route, also known as the Northeast Passage, and the Northwest ...
  • Experts meet on need for new rules to govern world's fragile polar regions

    ... a potential new, far shorter ocean route between Europe and Asia, a prospect already drawing billions ... search of colder waters," she says. "Arctic sea routes are among the world's most hazardous due ...
  • Sea ice loss opens route around northern ice pack

    Retreating sea ice in the Arctic has made it possible to navigate around the entire northern ice pack, a first since satellite observations of the region began three decades ago, according to NASA.
  • Arctic Explorer Delivers Unique Snow-depth Data For CryoSat

    ... Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008, explorers ventured out onto the sea-ice to embark upon a trek from Siberia to northern Greenland via the North Pole -- a route never before attempted.
  • Scientists integrate data in three dimensions to study climate effects on young fish

    ... , the two areas of ocean off the coasts of northern New Jersey and Long Island, New York look ... the surface to develop a track line or sampling route of the ocean floor within their study areas. They ...
  • Pacific shellfish ready to invade Atlantic

    ... century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions three million years ago, predict Geerat ...
  • Signals from the Atlantic salmon highway

    ... data is downloaded for the season, biologists can learn which route each fish took, how long it took ... grow in waters of the Labrador Sea, coastal West Greenland and northern Canada. "Given the fact ...
  • Which way 'out of Africa'?

    ... 150-200 thousand years ago, their route of dispersal across the hyper-arid Sahara ... , across the northern Sahara, to the Mediterranean Sea. These corridors rivalled the Nile Valley as potential routes ...
  • Research around the North Pole

    ... Basin. The analysis will allow for the first time to compare the glacial history of the Northern USA and Canada with Siberia and to elaborate differences and parallels in detail. Furthermore, the ...

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