1848 Wreck Found in Arctic

Clipper Adventurer runs aground on a rock

(NEWSER) - Canada is rescuing stranded passengers whose cruise ship ran onto a rock in the Arctic Ocean. The Canadian Coast Guard is ferrying some 128 passengers and 69 crew members from the Clipper Adventurer to Kugluktuk, a village on the Arctic Ocean. They'll fly to Canada from there. No one was injured. The grounded ship is stable, but listing, reports CNN . More»

(USER SUBMITTED) - Russian bombers have once again put Canada to the test, this time while the Canadian prime minister was visiting the Great North to affirm sovereignty in the Arctic. Two CF-18s were launched yesterday to intercept the Russian bombers as they approached Canadian airspace, some 30 nautical miles off Inuvik, in the Northwest Territories. The Canadian fighter jets shadowed the Russian "bears" until they turned around. More»

Aurora borealis may be visible in northern US tonight

(NEWSER) - Thanks to a plasma eruption that roiled the surface of the sun, residents of the northern US and Canada may be able to enjoy a spectacular show tonight—the Northern Lights. "This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4th," an astrophysicist in Cambridge, Mass., tells CNN . "It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time." More»

Canadian youth rescued from Arctic ice floe

(NEWSER) - A 17-year-old Inuit youth is in a local hospital with hypothermia after spending over 24 hours stranded on a drifting ice floe in Canada's Hudson Bay with three polar bears. The teen became separated from his uncle as the two walked back toward a settlement after their snowmobile broke down during a hunting trip, the Toronto Star reports. More»

Climate change opens north to shipping, tourism, resource development

(NEWSER) - Climate change is melting away the main barrier to business in the Arctic—ice—but the US lags behind other countries seeking to exploit the region, the Anchorage Daily News reports. As receding ice opens the area to shipping, resource exploitation, and tourism, it's Russia and Canada who have established transport rules and studied the ocean floor. "It's like the new Strait of Gibraltar," says a Coast Guard captain of the Bering Strait. More»