Welcome to Oceans North
Oceans North is a campaign led by The Pew Environment Group. It promotes science and community-based conservation of North America’s Arctic Ocean and the resulting well-being of indigenous Arctic residents who rely upon its natural wealth. Find out more about Oceans North U.S., Oceans North Canada and Oceans North International.
What’s New: Canada
- Notre site web est maintenant disponible en français. Merci pour une année 2011 exceptionnelle! Que 2012 soit la continuation, pleine de victoires en matière de conservation de l’Arctique.
More consultation needed on Lancaster Sound national marine conservation area in arctic, Inuit say. Postmedia News, 07 March 2012.
NEB Set to Allow Alternative for Relief-Well Rule in Arctic. The Globe and Mail, 15 December 2011.
- Canada Releases Rules for Offshore-Arctic Drilling. Wall Street Journal, 15 December, 2011.
- Arctic Offshore Drilling Needs Inuit Involvement at Every Stage. Nunatsiaq News, 13 September 2011.
- Ocean's North Canada releases report Becoming Arctic-Ready: Policy Recommendations for Reforming Canada’s Approach to Licensing and Regulating Offshore Arctic Oil and Gas.
- Eureka! A Roaming Bowhead Whale. New York Times, 22 June 2011
- Small Boat, Big Mission: An Arctic Whale Survey. New York Times, 9 June 2011
- Oceans North Arctic Whale Expedition Braves the Ice. Winnipeg Free Press, 27 May 2011
- Coastal Nations urged to Preserve Arctic Waters. The Globe and Mail, 12 May 2011
- Beaufort Sea commercial fishing banned, Apr 15, 2011, CBC News
- The Government's Lancaster Sound boundary announcement is a major conservation victory.
- Globe and Mail news: "Ottawa sets up Arctic Marine Park"
- Canada makes announcement for Lancaster Sound marine park boundaries.
What’s New: U.S.
- (May 1) Explore a new interactive video feature that takes you inside the places and issues defining our work in the U.S.
- (Apr 11) Learn about sea ice conditions in the Chukchi and Beafort seas.
- (Jan 30) We recently ran full page ads in the NYTimes and Politico highlighting a letter, coordinated by our campaign, signed by 573 scientists asking the administration to make development decisions based on sound science.
- (Dec 7) Watch our television advertisement that is running on major news shows this week.
- Read Director Marilyn Heiman's OpEd in the Huffington Post: Science Must Guide Offshore Arctic Conservation, Development (Oct 6).
- New White Paper (Sept 26): Closing U.S. Arctic Ocean Science Gaps
- VIDEO> (July 21) Learn more about the Inupiat culture and oil spill risks in the U.S. Arctic.
- PRESS RELEASE (June 23): Pew applauds first step in developing a science plan for U.S. Arctic Ocean
- From June 20-24, see our online ad in Politico.com highlighting how unprepared we are for drilling in the U.S. Arctic.
- "Are we really ready to drill in the Arctic?" View our full page ad running June 21in DC's Politico.
- U.S. Arctic Program's Marilyn Heiman and Raychelle Daniel joined the bowhead whale census on the Arctic Ocean ice this week. Read the scientists' field notes in New York Times>
- U.S. Arctic Program has invited the press to an expert panel discussion on impacts and recommendations one year after the Gulf Oil Spill.
How to Address U.S. Arctic Science Needs
The Pew Environment Group and Ocean Conservancy recently released a white paper in which 14 independent Arctic marine scientists reviewed and reinforced the recommendations of a USGS Arctic science gap analysis. The white paper also recommends concrete steps the Obama administration should take to address science gaps and inform conservation and development decisions in America’s Arctic Ocean.
Arctic Oil Spill Report
Oil Spill Prevention and Response in the U.S. Arctic Ocean: Unexamined Risks, Unacceptable Consequences is the most comprehensive analysis yet on challenges to preventing and containing spills along the nation’s northernmost coast. Find details, downloads, and video >
Oil Drilling in Bristol Bay Delayed until 2017
President Obama has delayed oil and gas drilling in ecologically rich Bristol Bay until 2017. Learn more about Bristol Bay and the coalition effort to permanently protect it at FishBasket.org >
Arctic Treasure Report
The Pew Environment Group releases: Arctic Treasure: Global Assets Melting Away – a summary of a report that for the first time quantifies the global cost of losing the Arctic’s climate cooling services. Find out more and access downloads >
VIDEO: Pew International Arctic Director Scott Highleyman discusses the Arctic Treasure report >