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Arctic Oceans Teeming with Life
The remotest depths of the Arctic ocean are surprisingly
full of life, including previously unknown species of jellyfish
and worms, a scientific team which just finished exploring
the area said on Friday. The scientists, led by the University
of Alaska, used robot submarines and sonar to probe an isolated
12,470-foot (3,800-meter) basin off Canada's Arctic coast
where they fear species could be at risk from global warming.
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Hans Island the tip of iceberg in Arctic claims
Defence Minister Bill Graham set off a diplomatic row
with Denmark when he re-stated claim to tiny Hans Island
in the far north last weekend, but what's really at stake
is Canadian sovereignty over more important sites in the
Arctic."Hans Island itself is a small and economically
insignificant piece of rock," Rob Heubert, an Arctic
expert with Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, said
on CTV's Question Period. Heubert believes Graham's move
was a bold and necessary response to a series of provocations
made earlier by the Danes.
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Cannibal Codfish Roam Arctic Lakes
Codfish as big as an eight-year-old child are roaming
three Arctic saltwater lakes, eating anything in their path,
including each other.That's what researchers from Dalhousie
University in Halifax discovered last summer while doing
research on Arctic cod in three land-locked lakes near Baffin
Island.
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One Man's Arctic Quest
"Welcome to a place that wants you dead," says
Vidmar, a Fremont resident, who returned home last week
after spending more than six weeks on a solo trek to the
North Pole. Reaching the North Pole had been a childhood
dream for Vidmar, a 39-year-old self-described entrepreneur
who decided in April 2003 to try to make his dream come
true.
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Norway Battles at Arctic Oil/ecology Crossroads
In a battle between oil firms aiming to push north and
an anti-oil alliance ranging from ecologists to bishops,
Norway's energy policy has come to a crossroads off some
picturesque Arctic islands. The government is due to decide
before Christmas whether to permit new oil and gas exploration
off the jagged snow-capped Lofoten islands, one of the nation's
top tourist draws, in a test of environmental risks in the
fragile Arctic.
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Inuit Claim Climate Change Is Human Rights Abuse
Inuit hunters said on Wednesday that a thawing
of Arctic ice threatened their human rights in a novel bid
to raise pressure on the United States to do more to fight
global warming. "The human rights of Inuit are under
threat as a result of human-induced climate change,"
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference
(ICC), told a news conference during a 180-nation U.N. meeting
on climate change in Milan.
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Musk Oxen Falling Prey to Grizzly Bears
Musk ox kills by brown bears in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge have dramatically increased over the past
decade, according to studies by federal and state biologists.A
number of individual Arctic grizzlies have learned how to
stalk and take down the shaggy animals, said ANWR ecologist
Patricia Reynolds, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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