http://www.polarconservation.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/norwegians-want-sunken-ship-201cmaud201d-back-from-canada From a “Globe and Mail – Canada” article: The ship has sat at the bottom of an Arctic fjord in Canada for the better part of a century, but now there is an international tug-of-war going on over who owns it. No publisher Raven 2011-07-20T14:47:00Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/201cnessie201d-in-alaska From a “Mail Online” article: Does Alaska have it's own Loch Ness monster ? In 2009, a local fisherman captured the unidentified creature on film. Of course, comparisons to Scotland's infamous Loch Ness Monster are being drawn. No publisher Raven 2011-07-20T14:43:26Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/underwater-volcanoes-discovered-in-antarctica From various articles: A slew of previously undiscovered underwater volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands, have been discovered by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). No publisher Raven 2011-07-19T18:52:28Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/eskimo-whalers-upbeat-after-international-whaling-commission-meeting Joint Press Release from the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission & North Slope Borough: No publisher Raven 2011-07-19T18:31:33Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/aboriginal-subsistence-whaling-asw From a "BBC News" article: Aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW), or indigenous subsistence whaling, as it's to be known in future, is not without its critics. Some would object on the grounds that it's still killing whales, and therefore wrong. No publisher Raven 2011-07-19T18:25:46Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/arctic-military-bases-for-canada From various articles: At present the Canadian military is exploring a way to cut costs and speed up the movement of troops and equipment in the vast and inhospitable Arctic by building several new northern bases. No publisher Raven 2011-07-19T18:07:23Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/new-ice-patrol-ship-for-the-uk From a "Defence Web" article: The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected the icebreaker MV Polarbjorn (Polar Bear), renamed the HMS Protector, to become the Royal Navy's new Antarctic ice patrol vessel. No publisher Raven 2011-07-19T17:34:57Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/largest-arctic-iceberg-spotted From an "Our Amazing Planet" article: It is the largest Arctic Iceberg formed in 50 years ! The massive ice island that broke off a glacier in Greenland 11 months ago has been winding its way through Arctic waters ever since. No publisher Raven 2011-07-12T18:31:41Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/how-irish-are-arctic-polar-bears From various articles: They might look pure white, but the polar bears inhabiting Canada's Arctic apparently have faint traces of brown, and a dash of shamrock green, in their DNA. No publisher Raven 2011-07-12T18:22:46Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/antarctic-krill-help-to-fertilise-southern-ocean-with-iron-1 Press Release from the British Antarctic Survey, 4th July 2011: A new discovery reveals that the shrimp-like creature at the heart of the Antarctic food chain could play a key role in fertilising the Southern Ocean with iron — stimulating the growth of phytoplankton (microscopic plant-like organisms). This process enhances the ocean’s capacity for natural storage of carbon dioxide. No publisher Raven 2011-07-12T17:51:47Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/effort-to-find-out-what-became-of-the-1845-franklin-expedition-cranks-into-high-gear From various articles: Will this be the Summer when the world will finally learn what happened to the doomed ships of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. No publisher Raven 2011-07-04T19:19:50Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/daring-rescue-flight-from-antarctica From various articles: Despite hazardous conditions that included temperatures of 40 degrees below zero, ash clouds from Chilean volcanoes and small earthquakes, the medical evacuation of a worker at McMurdo Station ended safely in Christchurch, New Zealand No publisher Raven 2011-07-04T19:11:54Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/rainbow-warrior-iii-taking-shape From various articles: Environmental pressure group Greenpeace's latest weapon is nearing completion: the state-of-the-art Rainbow Warrior III istaking shape in a vast hangar in a north German shipyard. No publisher Raven 2011-07-04T18:58:26Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/sea-monster-probably-a-whale From a "Discovery News" article: A 55-foot-long marine animal recently washed up dead on a beach at Guangdong, China. As beachgoers think that a sea monster is lying on their beach, scientists believe it to be a whale. No publisher Raven 2011-07-04T18:48:26Z News Item http://www.polarconservation.org/news/pco-news-articles/southern-right-whales-returning-to-new-zealand From various articles: They were almost hunted to extinction more than a century ago and unable to remember their ancestral calving grounds, the Southern right whales of mainland New Zealand are coming home. No publisher Raven 2011-07-04T18:50:18Z News Item