London (Global Adventures): Studying the rising acid levels in the Arctic Ocean that potentially threatens marine life is the main focus of the Catlin Arctic Survey 2010. British polar explorer Pen Hadow, Director of the mission, said it will begin in early March and take scientists to an Ice Base 750 miles from the North [...]

Arctic (Global Adventures): After discovering a “… unusual underwater mountain on the Arctic sea floor,” the race is on again for Canada and the United States to renew claims that their boundaries extend beyond their existing 200-nautical-mile economic zones, granted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Many countries including Russia [...]

Greenland (Global Adventures): Researchers in Greenland are looking into whether or not one of the world’s largest species of sharks could be a source of bio-fuel for the native Inuit population. The Greenland shark causes problems for fishermen, with thousands of them dying in nets off of Greenland every year, the Ottawa Citizen Newspaper reports.
While [...]

Ashville, N.C. (Global Adventures): The planet’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998, according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest at 1.03 degrees F [...]

Washington (Global Adventures): Over the last thirty years, the warming of the northward-flowing West Spitsbergen current in the Arctic may have contributed to global warming by triggering the release of methane, according to a recent study.
Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, working with an international team, have found that more than 250 plumes of [...]

Canada (Global Adventures): The Arctic continental shelf is the target of a joint US-Canadian expedition.
The Arctic survey is part of the multi-year, multi-agency effort undertaken by the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project, led by the Department of State, with vice co-chairs from the Department of the Interior and NOAA.
Under international law, every coastal nation is [...]