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Canada home to 5 of 10 species at risk from climate changeDec
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Canadian Senate committee: vessels traveling in the Arctic should have to report to Canadian authoritiesDec
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Released yesterday, the Senate’s standing committee on fisheries and oceans states that regardless of their size, every foreign vessel that enters Canada’s Arctic waters should have to register with the Canadian Coast Guard’s Arctic marine traffic system, NORDREG. more » Pacific mollusks heading to the Atlantic?Dec
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Making Sense of Climate ChangeDec
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Canadian government gives ok Arctic park studyDec
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Minerals Management Service approves Arctic drilling despite legal issuesDec
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Thoughts on Russia’s Arctic RoleDec
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Click here for the full story. Global warming may be irreversible, say U.S. scientistsDec
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On The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) list of ten new species that are the likeliest to be hit hard by global warming, Canada has the dubious honor of being home to half of the list. Of the ten species “destined to be hardest hit by climate change,” the leatherback turtle, salmon, beluga whale, ringed seal and Arctic fox were listed and all live in Canada. 
A new Canadian Senate committee report recommends that any foreign ships that travel in Canadian Arctic waters should have to report to the Canadian authorities.
According to researchers in California, one of the consequences of the melting Arctic ice is that the Atlantic Ocean could see mollusks from the Pacifica take up residency within decades. In order for this to happen, the Arctic would need to see 125 consecutive days of less than 75% cover of sea ice. Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that this could happen around 2050, but a California researcher disagrees – he believes it could happen much sooner. 
Researchers, Yevgeny Aksenov, Sheldon Bacon, Andrew Coward and George Nurser at the National Oceanography Center are running high-resolution computer simulations. These studies will help scientists understand how ocean climate has been altered due to the change in water flow from steadily increasing arctic temperatures. 
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), part of the federal government in the States, has given the okay for Shell Oil to start drilling in the Chukchi Sea. The drilling could start as early as next summer. The project was approved without the MMS fully analyzing the possible effects on not only the wildlife in the area, but the Native communities in the area, something that doesn’t sit well with some community members. 
With the race for the Arctic heating up both literally and figuratively, much focus has been on Russia and its role in the Arctic.