Posts Tagged ‘Arctic Ocean’

• First commercial ship sails through Northwest Passage: “I didn’t see one cube of ice”

  CBS News reports that the Canadian Coast Guard is confirming “that in a major first, a commercial ship travelled through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut”. “We did have a commercial cargo vessel …

• The North Pole could be ice-free in just five years

  Last week the ice at the North Pole melted at an “unprecedented rate.” And that has some scientists worrying that the Arctic could become ice-free during the summers as early as 2013, the Guardian reports. The storms over the Alaska’s …

• All the things we throw in the sea

  Despite the ban in 1994, radioactive depositions still reach the seas. In french pipes of nuclear facilities Greenpeace’s divers found the waters to have 17.000.000 times more intense radioactivity than clean waters. In Norway, crabs and seaweeds have been polluted …