The Canadian government's promised world-class Arctic research station should be located in the Northwest Passage and connected to a network of other research bases across the North, says the Canadian ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The Northwest Passage may become ice-free for the second summer in a row, scientists monitoring the situation say.
... for the exploration of Mars are planning history's first car drive through the fabled Northwest Passage, a trip they said on Friday will provide data on global warming and man's potential impact on ...
... merchant shipping between North America and Europe, he said. The declining ice may well open up the Northwest Passage, for example, which runs through the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea, the Beaufort ...
... Siberian Sea on August 12th. If the ice conditions allow, Polarstern will drive via the Northwest Passage into the work area. There, geoscientific measurements lie at the centre of attention of the ...
... to Canada's Arctic next week to find the lost ships of Sir John Franklin, whose doomed 1845 journey to the Northwest Passage has fascinated historians ever since.
... , ice cover. Two months ago it was still uncertain whether Polarstern could transit the Northwest Passage; an alternative measurement program for Greenland Sea had been parked in the drawer. Current ...
... find and plunder the ships of British explorer Sir John Franklin, who went missing with his 128-member crew while searching for the Northwest Passage.
... line - is currently almost free of ice, while the indirect route, called the Amundsen Northwest Passage, has been passable for almost a month. This is the second year in a row that the most direct ...
... in international law and policy in the polar regions caused by such developments as the opening up of the Northwest Passage. They will identify priorities for law-making and research and offer their ...
... was still prevalent," Clemente-Colón said.
The indirect, more southerly route – called the Amundsen Northwest Passage – opened up in July 2008, and according to ASAR images is about to close in the ...
... as the first research vessel ever both the Northeast and the Northwest Passages and thereby circled the North Pole. The third part of the research vessel's 23rd Arctic expedition, ...
RV Polarstern has returned to Bremerhaven from the Arctic Sea. It has cruised both the Northeast and the Northwest Passages and thereby circled the North Pole. The third part of the research vessel's ...
... , ASAR data revealed that the Northern Sea Route, also known as the Northeast Passage, and the Northwest Passage were both open simultaneously for the first time since satellite measurements began.
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... them directly where proposed future shipping lanes would be likely.
"Newly available shipping lanes through the Northwest Passage would greatly shorten the trip between Europe and ...
