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Russian Scientists to Conduct Research to Back Russia’s Arctic Sea Bed Claims
03.11.2009
Moscow is planning extensive scientific research to support its claim on a portion of Arctic Sea bed which it claims to be a prolongation of the Russian continental shelf, which is believed to contain vast oil, natural gas and mineral resources. The Russians commissioned ice-breakers and research vessels with a…
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Pollen Remains Indicate Warmer Temperatures in Arctic 50 Million Years Ago
26.10.2009
Research recently published in Nature Geoscience indicates that palmtrees flourished in the Arctic during an unusual "Hothouse" period some 50 million years ago. Scientists involved in an international studyled by Appy Sluijs of Utrecht University in the Netherlands foundpollen from palms, conifers, oaks, pecans and other species of treesfrom more…
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Arctic Lake Sediment Cores Show Recent Warming and Ecological Changes
21.10.2009
The results of a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on October 19th showed unprecedented biological and chemical changes in a sediment core retrieved from the bottom of an Arctic lake on the east coast of…
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Chinese Spotted Seal Population Endangered
20.10.2009
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service announced that two of the three populations of spotted seals in and near Alaska currently, which total more than 200,000 and have plenty of offspring, were not endangered in a foreseeable future. Yet for third spotted seal population, the situation is quite…
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As Ice Melts, Arctic Predicted to Become Stormier
16.10.2009
University of Colorado at Boulder.
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25% of World’s Carbon Sink in Arctic Land and Seas, but Climate Warming Could Change That
15.10.2009
According to their results published in the journal Ecological Monographs, Dr. David Mcguire of the US Geological Survey and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and his colleagues show that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for approximately one quarter of the global carbon net sink. However this trend could…
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Arctic Likely to Be Ice-Free during Summer within 20 Years
15.10.2009
New research shows that the Arctic Ocean be ice-free in summer within the next 20 years. Most of the melting will likely to occur within the next 10 years, although winter ice will likely remain for several hundred years.
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Gateway to Northwest Passage to Become Marine Conservation Area
15.10.2009
Lancaster Sound, located off the northern tip of Baffin Island in Canada's Nunavut Territory, is the eastern gateway to the Northwest Passage. The Government of Canada, the Government of Nunavut, and the regional land claim organization are talking about signing a memorandum of understanding making Lancaster Sound a Marine Conservation…
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Some Caribou Herds’ Numbers Declining While Others Rising in Alaska
14.10.2009
The decline of two of Alaska's largest caribou herds is clear in the Western Arctic part of Alaska; yet herds in the Central Arctic part of Alaska appear to be doing well. According to a report form the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the Teshekpuk, Central Arctic and Fortymile…
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Habitat of Sea Otters in Alaska Now Protected
12.10.2009
Sea otters used to be plentiful in the 1970's with a population of about 100,000, yet with fewer than 40,000 left and 90% of the species found in Alaska, it was placed on the US Endangered Species List in 2005. Now, some four years later, another move has been taken…
