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Russia and America prep forces for Arctic war

2015-10-04 21:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: President Barack Obamas recent trip to Alaska helped draw attention to global climate change - and to the national-security tensions that could result from a warming Arctic region. Surveyors believe that the seabed under Arctic waters could contain hundreds of billions of barrels of untapped oil. As the North Pole becomes more accessible, and so more valuable, Arctic countries - each with its own and in some cases overlapping territorial claims - are getting ready for some serious competition....

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Sea ice still too thick Arctic shipping route

2015-10-03 07:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Earth Sky: New research from York University predicts that it will be decades before the Northwest Passage will be a viable route for regular commercial shipping. Despite climate change, Arctic sea ice remains too thick and treacherous, says the study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on September 25, 2015. The Northwest Passage is a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In the past, the Northwest Passage has been virtually...

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FAA Opens Arctic to commercial small unmanned aircraft.

2015-09-30 14:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

While aboard Westward Wind on September 12, FAA Alaskan Region inspector Jay Skaggs helped ensure first FAA-approved commercial flights by unmanned aircraft was conducted safely. Westward Wind, which carried 4 Insitu Scan Eagle UAS to perform marine mammal and ice surveys, captured UAS after successful 36 min flight. This flight represents efforts by people from FAA, ConocoPhillips, Insitu, and other agencies who worked for months to open up Arctic for commercial UAS operations.

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Shell abandons Arctic oil drilling: indications not sufficient to warrant further exploration

2015-09-28 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Shell announced today that it was abandoning further work on the controversial Burger J exploration well, located in Alaskas Chukchi Sea. The Burger J well is approximately 150 miles from Barrow, Alaska, in about 150 feet of water. Shell drilled the well to a total depth of 6,800 feet this summer. They found indications of oil and gas in the Burger J well, but these are "not sufficient to warrant further exploration in the Burger prospect". The well will be sealed and abandoned in accordance...

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