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Committee forming to bring Arctic Games to JuneauJan
31 JUNEAU – Should the 2014 Arctic Winter Games be held in Juneau? Mayor Bruce Botelho is hosting a gathering of those interested in bringing the event to Juneau. The meeting will be held in the Assembly Chambers at 7 p.m. Thursday. more » Tainted North Pole water leads to lawsuit against Flint Hills refineryJan
29 FAIRBANKS (newsminer.com)— A North Pole man filed suit against the current and former owners of the Flint Hills oil refinery because the chemical sulfolane entered public water supplies from the refinery. James West filed the lawsuit late Wednesday afternoon against Flint Hills Resources LLC, which has owned the refinery since April 1, 2004; and Williams Alaska Petroleum Inc., which previously owned the refinery. more » Melting Arctic Ice: What Satellite Images Don’t SeeJan
28 According to time.com, for scientists studying the health of Arctic sea ice, satellite observations are absolutely essential for providing the big picture. It was satellites that revealed in September 2007 a record minimum ice coverage in the region — the result of a massive summer melt. And it was satellites that showed in 2008 and 2009 the modest recovery of late-summer Arctic ice that suggested to some that the specter of a totally ice-free polar ocean might be somewhat less imminent than feared. more » Courts as Battlefields in Climate FightsJan
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Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo village of 400 perched on a barrier island north of the Arctic Circle, is accusing two dozen fuel and utility companies of helping to cause the climate change that it says is accelerating the island’s erosion. more » Ice Melting Faster EverywhereJan
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From the Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic interior and the mountainous peaks of Peru, Alaska, and Tibet, ice is melting at an alarming rate. The accelerating loss of ice sheets, sea ice, and glaciers is one of the most powerful and striking indicators of a warming climate, according to docuticker.com Arctic melting: greenhouse effect blamedJan
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Scientists at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, which have monitored the ice via satellites since 1978, say the total Arctic ice in 2005 will cover the smallest area since they started measuring. more » Is Earth cooling down?Jan
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CCTV – severe cold in northern hemisphere has revived arguments about climate change. In contrast to the global warming theory, some experts say the warming process has stopped, and the climate is actually becoming cooler. Some experts believe globe oceans experiencing a miniature Ice Age. They even think the cold weather could last for two or three decades. With less Arctic ice, telecom companies want to lay fiber optic cable between Japan, LondonJan
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber more » BP Would Like To Explore For Oil, Gas In Russian Arctic – CEOJan
22 LONDON (Dow Jones)–BP PLC (BP) would like the opportunity to expand its presence in Russia to explore for oil and gas in the country’s Arctic region, Chief Executive Tony Hayward said Thursday. “We have worked for decades in areas such as the North Slope of Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and Northern Norway,” Hayward said in a speech to the Moscow Academy of National Economy, which was posted on BP’s Web site. “BP has also been very active in the offshore Arctic regions, which represent an important new frontier for the industry.” “Building on this expertise, we would certainly welcome the opportunity to deploy our technology and skills to explore and produce Arctic resources in Russia as well,” he said. more » |
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Tiny Kivalina, Alaska, does not have a hotel, a restaurant or a movie theater. But it has a very big lawsuit that might affect the way the nation deals with climate change, nytimes.com says
According to google.com, the Arctic ice shelf has melted for the fourth straight year to its smallest area in a century, driven by rising temperatures that appear linked to a build-up of greenhouse gases, warn US scientists.
