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Diesel Tanker Runs Aground in the Arctic
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- On some days, the fuel tank sure feels half empty. Mere hours after an oil platform explosion ripped through the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon, a tanker carrying 2.4 million gallons of diesel fuel has reportedly run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Arctic waterway above the Canadian mainland. According to the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, the tanker is owned by Woodward's Oil and got stuck on a sandbar near the Nunavut community of Gjoa Haven in northern Canada. The ship was taking the diesel fuel to resupply the remote communities in the region, CBC reported. As ...
Canadians Find British Ship Lost for 150-Plus Years
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(July 29) -- Canadian archaeologists found the remains of a British ship abandoned in the Arctic more than 150 years ago after it was sent to find two vessels that went missing in their search for the elusive Northwest Passage. The wreck of the HMS Investigator was detected with the help of sonar technology in the relatively shallow waters of Mercy Bay, off Canada's Banks Island. It was sitting upright about 36 feet down on the seafloor and was "in surprisingly good condition," said Marc-Andre Bernier, the head of underwater archaeology at Parks Canada. "The reason we were so lucky in a way ...
Cold, Hard Facts: U.S. Trails in Race for the Top of the World
By Bob Reiss - Politics DailyMost Americans give little thought to our far north. We think of the Arctic as a single region, a cold place divorced from our everyday lives, a setting for documentaries from which we learn that polar bears are in danger as their icy habitat shrinks. But the U.S. also faces huge, new geopolitical consequences from the melt. A whole new area of Earth is suddenly open for international conflict, environmental destruction, and an economic bonanza. On March 1, Alaska's senators sat down at the Council for Foreign Relations with other experts on the region to figure out how to get the rest of ...
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