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Arctic oil: A boon for nest predators
Sep 08, 2009 |
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A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other groups reveals how oil development in the Artic is impacting some bird populations by providing "subsidized housing" ...
Natural gas in the Arctic is mostly Russian
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May 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nearly one-third of the natural gas yet to be discovered in the world is north of the Arctic Circle and most of it is in Russian territory, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Arctic governments and industry still unprepared for oil spills 20 years after Exxon Valdez
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Two decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill devastated a vast stretch of the Alaskan coast, governments and industry in the Arctic would be unable to effectively manage a large oil spill, according to a new report by World ...
Satellites show the way to new oil finds
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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A new map of the Earth’s gravitational force based on satellite measurements makes it much less resource intensive to find new oil deposits. The map will be particularly useful as the ice melts in the oil-rich ...
First comprehensive geological Arctic map published
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May 15, 2009 |
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Canada has unveiled the first comprehensive Arctic atlas, detailing geological features that point to where oil and gas, gold and diamond deposits are likely hidden beneath snow and ice.
Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...
Understand the Arctic before exploiting it
Sep 18, 2009 |
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America's Arctic has long been a place of myth and dream, where the Inupiat Eskimos have thrived, explorers endured and artists found inspiration. While competing visions of the Arctic have clashed in the past, we are now ...
Russian surveys continental shelf borders
Mar 21, 2006 |
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Russian Defense Ministry officials say they are considering using nuclear-powered submarines to survey Russia's continental shelf borders in the Arctic.
Researchers find high numbers of heat-loving bacteria in cold Arctic Ocean
Sep 17, 2009 |
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A team of scientists led by U of C grad Casey Hubert has detected high numbers of heat loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments in the Arctic Ocean off the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The ...
Scientists issue warning on future of central Arctic
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have warned that world leaders are in a race against time to make key decisions about the future of international co-operation in the Arctic.
Tackling new Arctic challenges from space
Nov 05, 2009 |
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International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the 'Space and the Arctic workshop' to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore how space-based ...
Ice-free Arctic Ocean possible in 30 years, not 90 as previously estimated
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated. New research says the Arctic might lose most of its ice cover in summer in as few ...
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