This past winter, researchers from the Center for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba (UM) ...

Environmental Impact of Arctic Oil Spills. T he Arctic region contains an estimated 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil, with one third lying within US territory. The challenge of drilling in ...

Arctic watchers fear 150,000 barrels of diesel oil from a ruptured fuel tank at a Russian nickel mine will spill into the Arctic Ocean, as cleanup efforts falter.

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They warned that the challenges of coping with an oil rig blowout in remote Arctic waters “would far surpass those related to BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion,” which is estimated to be ...

The urgency to develop Arctic-specific tools for oil-disaster response and an Arctic ecological baseline has only increased in recent months. In late May, news broke of a massive Arctic oil spill ...

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Given the unique sensitivity of the Arctic environment, its extreme weather, geographic conditions and lack of infrastructure, responding to an oil spill in the Arctic poses even greater ...

An oil spill in the Arctic could happen in a number of ways. It could be a cruise ship that’s run aground while passengers are looking at a sea bird colony.

A year after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, some experts are pondering the next doomsday scenario — a massive oil well blowout in the icy waters off Alaska's northern coa ...

Adm. Robert Papp testifies that if a major spill happened off Alaska's Arctic coast, the U.S. Coast Guard had no chance of cleaning it up if industry efforts failed.