The move to North-West shipping route is drawn between the Atlantic and the Pacific Altantico that passes through the Arctic archipelago of Canada.
Since the fifteenth century, Europeans tried to establish a route that passed just north west of our continent; nuomerose were the shipping and crew perished in the ice, but it was not until 1906 that the company was able, thanks to ' Norwegian explorer Roald Amudsen.
But he took as many as 3 years, too many because its route could be considered commercially exploitable. Other attempts followed, until 1944, when the route was covered in a season by a Canadian ship.
The transition between the ice has always made it dangerous and often deadly this way, many ships have been captured and their crews with them with no way out.
But now this historic shift seems to have become inaccessible for a walk.
It 's a news these days: Roger Swanson, a former pig farmer from Minnesota became an adventurer of the seas, at age 76 was able to sail on a ketch of 17 meters to cross this legendary smooth transition, as before him there was virtually no ice.
Almost simultaneously, the ESA (European Space Agency) studying photos of the area taken by the Envisat satellite, said that the ice reached the minimum levels for 30 years, ever since he began monitoring them.
These days the ice has been reduced to fewer than 3 million square kilometers! By 2020, this route could be constantly navigable, becoming commercially exploitable and saving 4000 km to the ships now being forced to cross the canadle of Panama.
But this is alarming from an environmental perspective, such a strong reduction of the ice at such a high speed, is to reconsider the current estimates. Global warming is here and is showing an obvious and increasingly urgent important to be aware of what is happening, to set environmental policies conscious and reasoned.
Since the fifteenth century, Europeans tried to establish a route that passed just north west of our continent; nuomerose were the shipping and crew perished in the ice, but it was not until 1906 that the company was able, thanks to ' Norwegian explorer Roald Amudsen.
But he took as many as 3 years, too many because its route could be considered commercially exploitable. Other attempts followed, until 1944, when the route was covered in a season by a Canadian ship.
The transition between the ice has always made it dangerous and often deadly this way, many ships have been captured and their crews with them with no way out.
But now this historic shift seems to have become inaccessible for a walk.
It 's a news these days: Roger Swanson, a former pig farmer from Minnesota became an adventurer of the seas, at age 76 was able to sail on a ketch of 17 meters to cross this legendary smooth transition, as before him there was virtually no ice.
Almost simultaneously, the ESA (European Space Agency) studying photos of the area taken by the Envisat satellite, said that the ice reached the minimum levels for 30 years, ever since he began monitoring them.
These days the ice has been reduced to fewer than 3 million square kilometers! By 2020, this route could be constantly navigable, becoming commercially exploitable and saving 4000 km to the ships now being forced to cross the canadle of Panama.
But this is alarming from an environmental perspective, such a strong reduction of the ice at such a high speed, is to reconsider the current estimates. Global warming is here and is showing an obvious and increasingly urgent important to be aware of what is happening, to set environmental policies conscious and reasoned.
