Tag: Arctic

Russia has used the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for its own economic and geopolitical interests. One Russian law requires all vessels passing through the Northern Sea Route to be piloted by Russians. The heavy regulation is one among many reasons why major shipping companies often use the Suez and Panama canals—longer, but cheaper and easier, trade routes.

But the giant tankers, which can be 300 meters long or more, account for the largest share of CO2 emissions by far, a new analysis shows.

The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century—decades earlier than records suggest—due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean.

Warming Arctic presents potential new threats to humans and marine wildlife

Clouds are one of the biggest wildcards in predictions of how much and how fast the Arctic will continue to warm in the future.

IceNet, the AI predictive tool, is almost 95?curate in predicting whether sea ice will be present two months ahead—better than the leading physics-based model.

Akvaplan-niva has been awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway to study the role of the Polar Front in ecosystem structure and function in the western Barents Sea.

These permanently cold waters are seeing increasing industrial activity related to maritime shipping and offshore oil and gas sector activities.

OMG is completing a six-year mission that is helping to answer how fast sea level is going to rise in the next five, 10, or 50 years.

While on duty in the high Arctic, the Iridium® network supports Coast Guard ships' and crew members' ability to stay in touch with headquarters.

Сonditions in the Arctic Ocean are becoming more like those in the North Atlantic, which is much warmer.

The research has shown these chemicals have traveled not by sea, but through the atmosphere, where they accumulate in Arctic sea ice.