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Arctic expert: Canada should be concerned about recent U.S. sub’s trip to ArcticNov
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Inuit Circumpolar Council calls for climate change actionNov
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Gov. Parnell suing federal government over polar bearsNov
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Tipping Points: How Arctic Warming Could Chill Western EuropeNov
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In his new book, A World Without Ice, geophysicist Henry Pollack explains the complex influences that Earth’s ice has had on human survival, and that population growth and industrialization are now having on the survival of Earth’s ice. Following is an excerpt. more » Nevada researcher gets grant to study ice coresNov
14 RENO, Nev. (AP) —A scientist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno has been awarded more than $3.2 million in grant funding to study ice cores and climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. more » Arctic reindeer affected by global warmingNov
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Alaska Natives lobby Washington about Arctic drillingNov
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Arctic scientists disheartened by public’s skepticismNov
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Canadian Navy commander gives talk on ArcticNov
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According to one specialist on Canada’s northern security, the Canadian government should consider a U.S. submarine’s recent surfacing close to the North Pole along with the increase in other nation’s military activity in the Arctic as an indication that Canada is not the only country serious about increasing their presence in the region. 
According to Jimmy Stotts, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the issue of climate change must be tackled immediately. The ICC represents the Inuit populations of Russia, Alaska, Greenland and Canada. 
If environmentalists and polar bears thought that they may have an ally in Alaska’s new Governor, they are sorely mistaken. Gov. Sean Parnell says that while he has the best interest of Alaska’s polar bears at heart, he has no plans to allow the federal government’s protection of the bears stop Alaska’s continued economic growth. 
We’ve all heard about the plight of the Arctic polar bear, whose habitat and food supply is threatened by climate change. Another northern animal that is suffering due to the increase in temperature is the reindeer, particularly the reindeer population situated on the Norway-Russia border. Rising temperatures are affecting the animal’s food stock while growing industry is taking up some of its grazing land. 
A group of Alaska North Slope women who are strongly opposed to plans to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other offshore sites in Alaska are in Washington this week. The group is there to lobby both Obama’s administration and members of congress, detailing their concerns about oil and gas development in the Arctic. 
Those scientists who are researching and monitoring the impact that global warming is having in the extreme north are growing more and more frustrated with people’s disbelief and apathy about how far reaching and extensive the problem is, and also how difficult monitoring the situation can be. 
According to Cmdr. Alex Grant, who is the former HMCS Toronto commanding officer, a military presence in the Arctic is something of importance for Canada. After giving a talk to the Moncton Rotary Club during a luncheon, Grant said, “If we’re claiming it as sovereign, we have to be able to police it. Say there was somebody dumping their bilges and all that water pollution went to Russia, Denmark. They’re not going to be too happy about it and would expect us, as good international neighbors, to be able to know what’s going on in our backyard and react to it.”