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Arctic Warming May Be a Factor in Demise of Lakes
14.06.2005
According to researchers, rising Arctic temperatures over the past two decades appear to have thawed the ground enough to allow more than 125 lakes to drain into the soil and vanish.
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Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 6th-17th June 2005
14.06.2005
At its meeting in Stockholm the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) of the Antarctic Treaty parties has agreed to develop a strategy to address environmental impacts, including those by tourists.
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Athenaweb: A Professional Web Portal for the EU Audiovisual and Scientific Communities
13.06.2005
In conjunction with the project's strategic partners and contributors, the IPF attended the European Commission's launch of the AthenaWeb portal on June 4th in Paris, France as part of the "Salon de la Recherche et de l'Innovation".
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Changing Planet Revealed in Atlas
08.06.2005
The BBC has published an intersting article about an atlas of environmental change compiled by the United Nations. It reveals some of the dramatic transformations that are occurring to our planet.
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Can “Pleistocene Park” Limit the Carbon Impact of Thawing Permafrost?
27.05.2005
Russian researchers are about to establish a real "Pleistocene Park" in Siberia.
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Home Fires in India Contribute to Melting Arctic Half a World Away
27.05.2005
Poor women cooking family meals in India are helping to melt snow and ice in the Arctic, startling new studies show. Soot from their fires gets wafted into the atmosphere to fall out on the ice thousands of miles away, hastening its disappearance.
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Cartographic Study Shows the Retreat of Glacier Fronts in West Antarctica
27.05.2005
The first comprehensive study of glaciers around the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula revealed the real impact of recent climate change.
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Research Reveals Earth’s Asymmetrical Auroras
27.05.2005
Data collected from two NASA spacecraft, Polar and Image have revealed that Earth's northern and southern auroras are not simply mirror images of one another, as previously believed.
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Indigenous Arctic Leaders Urge Europe to Do More to Fight Global Warming
27.05.2005
Leaders of the Arctic region's indigenous people, visiting Berlin and Brussels, have urged European countries to step up the fight against global warming, saying it is threatening their environment, economies and cultures.
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Hunting Threat to Arctic Animals
27.05.2005
According to a report published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Greenland animals like polar bear, narwhal, beluga whale and walrus are threatened by non-sustainable hunting.
