The drilling camp of the SWAIS 2C project in West Antarctica. Photo: Craig Stevens, NIWA/New Zealand A drill core from the sea floor under the Kamb Ice Shelf in West Antarctica is expected to provide information about past warm periods and thus enable more accurate...
Researchers of the EastGRIP project, a 14-nations research project on ice core drilling on the Greenland ice sheet, recently made a significant discovery: ice streams flow as a single block into the oceans, sliding on mud rather than on water. This discovery will have...
While in Alaska the drilling ban is mainly limited to the ANWR protected area and production continues further west, there is a complete ban on Canada’s Arctic coasts, which is now to be extended. Photo: US Geological Survey It is not only on the north coast of...
Female polar bears need snow caves to give birth to their cubs. On the north coast of Alaska, the animals have to move to the slopes of the mainland to do this because there is no more perennial ice. Because polar bears are protected, the location of snow dens must be...
