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Humans Not Main Culprit in Musk Ox Population Decline After Last Ice Age
10.03.2010
A team of scientists found that human activity is not the reason behind the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began 12,000 years ago. The findings, to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows that while both human and musk ox…
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Tuft of Hair Used to Reconstruct Ancient Greenlander
11.02.2010
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have done the first reconstruction of the nuclear genome of an extinct human using DNA retrieved from tufts of hair and bone fragments from a man who lived in Greenland some 4,000 years ago. Besides the four small pieces of bone and hair, no…
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Recent Sea Ice Survey Draws Attention to Arctic Warming Once Again
03.12.2009
Right before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, a team of explorers and scientists wanted to draw attention to an increasingly warmer Arctic. The team departed on a 450-kilometre trek across the Arctic for 73 days in unfriendly terrain with temperatures of -40°C.
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Raising Awareness about Inuit Culture during the Year of the Inuit
30.11.2009
The Canadian Government has officially declared 2010 the Year of the Inuit in Canada to raise awareness about Inuit culture and issues.
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Global Warming Threatens Infrastructure in Canadas North
30.11.2009
Roads, buildings and other infrastructure in northern Canada will be increasingly affected by global warming with disastrous consequences as temperatures become increasingly milder in the area, according to a recent report by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE).
