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  • CCAMLR Tightens Net on Illegal Fishing

    08.11.2006

    The Australian Government has won an important battle against illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) which ended in Hobart at the weekend.

  • CO2 2005 Record High Raises Concerns over Polar Vulnerability

    08.11.2006

    The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU) said on 6 November that the International Polar Year 2007-2008 was all the more significant because greenhouse gas levels had reached record highs in 2005.

  • WMO 2005 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin: Atmospheric CO2 Levels Highest on Record

    07.11.2006

    The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has released official figures for 2005 levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide - unfortunately they are the higest on record. After water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are the three most prevalent greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Greenhouse gases are some…

  • Carbon Dioxide from Rise of Appalachian Mountains Caused Global Cooling Long Ago

    06.11.2006

    The rise of the Appalachian Mountains may have caused a major ice age approximately 450 million years ago, an Ohio State University study has found. Seth Young, a doctoral student in earth sciences at Ohio State, reported the new study October 25 at the Geological Society of America meeting in…

  • Melting Icesheets May Be Weakenening Meridional Overturning Circulation

    06.11.2006

    Measurements from a network of monitors stretching across the Atlantic Ocean could offer an early warning of "sudden climate change", scientists have said. The first set of results were presented at a climate conference on "Rapid Climate Change" in Birmingham (UK). These results are confirming a weakening of the Meridional…

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  • An elder preparing country food her family has brought her. Inuit who have a hunter in the family have much better food security.
  • Preparing country food to share at the Tukisgiavarik drop-in centre.
  • The community centres are based on Inuit values, which put emphasis on taking care of others in their community. Inuit come to the centres not only to get food, but also to converse with other Inuit and feel a part of their culture.
  • Caribou in the Canadian Arctic, a traditional source of protien for the Inuit. Climate change is changing the natural distribution areas of animals and changing ice conditions, making it more and more difficult for hunters to get traditional country food.
  • With fewer and fewer hunters in the Candian Arctic and a transition to a mixed economy, many Inuit are increasingly becoming dependant on store-bought food.
  • Food that has to be shipped to the Arctic from elsewhere can be three times as expensive compared to Southern Canada. Traditional Inuit country foods sold in stores are often the most expensive products.

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