Surprising Source of Arctic Mercury
Sci-Tech Today
Harvard researchers say the accumulation of toxic mercury in the Arctic is being caused both by atmospheric sources and by rivers depositing it there. The environmental implications are huge: climate change could have a very large impact on arctic …
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Surprising Source of Arctic Mercury
Sci-Tech Today
Harvard researchers say the accumulation of toxic mercury in the Arctic is being caused both by atmospheric sources and by rivers depositing it there. The environmental implications are huge: climate change could have a very large impact on arctic …
Toxic Mercury, Accumulating In the Arctic, Springs From a Hidden SourceeNews Park Forest
Toxic Mercury Is Accumulating in the ArcticPlanetSave.com
Toxic Mercury Accumulates in ArcticLiveScience.com
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NOAA: New Alaska navigational chart makes increased Arctic shipping safer
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NOAA formally presented today to Alaska officials a new nautical chart for Kotzebue Sound in the Alaskan Arctic, a sparsely charted region that is seeing increased vessel traffic because of the significant loss of summer sea ice.

Toxic Mercury, Accumulating In the Arctic, Springs From a Hidden Source
eNews Park Forest
Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean.
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Shell defends pay and plans for Arctic
Financial Times
Mr Ollila also defended Shell's ability to develop oilfields safely in Arctic waters as it prepares for exploratory drilling this summer, in the face of arguments from a representative of local native Americans that the project ran a substantial risk …
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Adventurers to celebrate Queen's Jubilee atop Arctic peak
CBC.ca
A group of adventurers is going to extreme heights and great lengths to plan an Arctic tea party. They plan to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, which marks the 60 years since she ascended to the throne. An eight-person team from Canada and the …

Arctic in a feedback loop of warming, says paper
Fierce Government
A global warming-provoked shift in the Arctic to seasonal rather than multiyear ice itself creates a feedback loop for more heat absorption in the ocean, says a recent paper published by the American Geophysical Union. The paper (.pdf), based on 4 …

Thawing Arctic Cryosphere Releases Trapped Methane
RedOrbit
Credit: Katey Walter Anthony The edges of glaciers and Arctic permafrost are where most of the evidence of global warming can be seen, but scientists have recently been traveling to these remote locations for a different reason.
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