Tag: Arctic Circle

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 08:47 UTC

  US expands its EEZ by 385,000sq km off Alaska despite not been party of UNCLOS

  

  With the stroke of a pen the US administration of president Joe Biden added nearly 250 million acres to its maritime claims, the largest administrative expansion since the establishment of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in 1983.

• Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Icelandair's 42 hours flight to Antarctica and home again

  

  In its presentation, Icelandair says it usually flies closer to the Arctic Circle, but on this occasion, the trip was 4 days and 42 flight hours from the top of the world to the bottom, and home again. On Friday, February 26, an Icelandair Boeing 767 (TF-ISN), landed at Troll airfield (QAT) at the Troll research station operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Climate change: the Arctic Ocean sea ice has yet to start refreezing

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Historically, the Arctic Ocean would freeze right out to its edges (the northern coasts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, and Alaska) each winter — 14-million square kilometers of ice — and then melt back to about half that area over the following summer. Not this year.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Arctic Circle wildfires carbon pollution reaches record levels, EU Earth program

  

  This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union's Earth observation program said on Thursday.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  Seals mortality in Bering Sea beaches baffles scientists; above normal water temperatures

  

  At least 60 dead seals have been discovered along beaches of the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea in northwestern Alaska, and scientists are trying to determine what caused their deaths, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Wednesday. 

• Wednesday, February 11th 2015 - 15:31 UTC

  Arctic oil on life support

  

  Oil companies have eyed the Arctic for years. With an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil lying north of the Arctic Circle, the circumpolar north is arguably the last corner of the globe that is still almost entirely unexplored.

• Tuesday, December 4th 2012 - 19:47 UTC

  Aberdeen oil firm secures exploration licences on Iceland continental shelf

  

  Aberdeen oil firm Faroe Petroleum has secured provisional exploration licences in the Dreki area on the Icelandic Continental Shelf. The company said the licences were “extensive”, encompassing seven blocks located inside the Arctic Circle to the north east of Iceland.