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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.
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Record Low Ozone Level in 2005
27.05.2005
Pollution and climate change has resulted in the thinnest ozone layer in 50 years over northern and central Europe.
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New Collision Looks Imminent for B15a Iceberg
27.05.2005
The mammoth B-15A iceberg appears poised to strike another floating Antarctic ice feature.
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Antarctic Runway for Jets
27.05.2005
The Australian Government has approved the building of an ice runway and supporting an air link between Hobart, Australia and Australia's Casey Station in Antarctica.
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East Antarctica Puts on Weight
27.05.2005
A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice as predicted by the IPCC.
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Post-2012 Climate Talks Stalled at UN Conference
26.05.2005
Global talks on an international regime to combat climate change after Kyoto ends made little progress at a UN conference in Bonn. EU and US delegates were unable to agree on a common statement after bilateral meetings on 18 May.
