Sentences with phrase «fabled northwest»

The simplest answer is simply this: today's ice - mass losses are unsurprising in view of James Hansen's 1981 prediction of «the «opening of the fabled Northwest Passage» consequent to AGW.

Both Russia's Northern Sea Route and Canada's fabled Northwest Passage offer faster routes than comparable southern routes, which means that more global shipping traffic will begin to pass along both routes as sea ice retreats.

It was just nine years ago when, for the first time on record, an ice - free route opened through the fabled Northwest Passage.

The Northern Sea Route along Russia's Arctic coast and the fabled Northwest Passage over Canada were both navigable, in theory, in early September 2008.

Even the United States and Canada have had diplomatic tussles, particularly over whether the fabled Northwest Passage through Canada's mazelike Arctic archipelago is an international navigation route or subject to Canadian control.

Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage.

Thin ice also allowed the first commercial ship, the MV Camilla Desgagnes to traverse the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in September, delivering cargo to Inuit villages.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Will we be able to cross the fabled Northwest Passage?

Climate change in the Arctic may not just produce the fabled Northwest Passage; it may also release the vast stores of methane frozen in its tundra and lakes.

This massive reduction has allowed an ice - free shipping lane to open through the fabled Northwest Passage along northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

Not exact matches

The result for Pakistan's northwest was flash flooding that killed at least 1,500 people, according to government estimates; washed out numerous bridges; and destroyed a section of the fabled Karakoram Highway, cutting off half a million people from the outside world.

This summer also was notable because scientists confirmed that two fabled shipping routes, the Northwest Passage past Canada and the Northern Sea Route past Russia, were briefly open simultaneously.

And there has been recent discussion of an anticipated year - round opening of the fabled «Northwest Passage» through the far north of Canada for the first time in recorded history.

The Northwest Passage refers to the fabled shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific through the Canadian Archipelago.