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N.W.T. union's office staff give strike notice
Winnipeg :: Canada | 5 days ago
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The federal food mail program must allow traditional "country" foods such as game meat to be shipped between northern communities, Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak says. Eighty per cent of the Yukon's Peel River watershed region should be protected from industrial...
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Arctic chill to blow in tonight
Portland :: OR :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Forecasters are calling for subfreezing temperatures beginning this evening with a cold air mass from Canada and the possibility of snow flurries. A second low-pressure system will carry an even colder dose of arctic air Saturday night, with overnight...
Tags: Portland, Weather, Snow, Precipitation, Arctic
A Closer Look at Global Warming (Part 2)
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility How does one explain melting glaciers, disappearing Arctic ice packs, and ice sheets that break off in the Antarctic? Usually when the climate warms, glacial ice sheets and glaciers simply recede as they melt and very little new ice or icebergs are pushed...
Tags: global warming, ice coverage, ice sheets, pressure systems, Southern Ontario, oceans ice, sunspot cycles, arctic ice, ice packs, Ottawa, Canada, Environment, Glacier, Sea ice, Carbon finance, Climate change, Glaciology, Arctic, Polar ice packs
Holland-Bartels: Pioneering new climate-change policies
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility From the Partnership for Public Service Monday, November 30, 2009; 5:22 AM For Leslie Holland-Bartels of the U.S. Alaska's polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act was a great accomplishment. But the 2008 federal designation...
Tags: Anchorage, Environment, Inuit culture, Bears, Polar bears, Climate change, Polar Bears and Global Warming, Global warming, Polar bear, Arctic
Polar bears eating young due to shrinking sea ice: Scientists
Toronto :: Canada | 11 days ago
Credibility Scientists fear polar bears won't survive severe climate change. Scientists say shrinking Arctic sea ice may be forcing some polar bears into cannibalizing young cubs. "When (bears) are very hungry, they go looking for something to eat," biologist Ian...
Tags: polar bears, sea ice, bears eating, Canada, Toronto, Environment, Ian Stirling, Inuit culture, Bears, Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Arctic, Human Interest
Canadian researcher says arctic ice is thinning
Winnipeg :: Canada | 11 days ago
Credibility Manitoba — The permanent Arctic sea ice that is home to the world's polar bears and usually survives the summer has all but disappeared, a Canadian researcher said Friday. University of Manitoba Arctic researcher David Barber said experts around the world...
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Business Books: Arctic melts, but no big "Cold Rush" for oil
Oslo :: Norway | 11 days ago
Credibility The Arctic is thawing fast because of global warming but a big "Cold Rush" for offshore oil and gas looks unlikely because of icebergs and high costs, a new book says. A retreat of Arctic ice in summers is changing indigenous peoples' livelihoods and...
Tags: cold rush, Norway, Oslo, Environment, Sea ice, Climate change, Global warming, Extreme points of Earth, Polar bear, Arctic, Poles, Polar ice packs
Report: Canadian north not ready for melt
Ottawa :: Canada | 13 days ago
Credibility People living in Canada's far north aren't prepared for what global warming will do to their homes and infrastructure, a federal agency warned the government. The independent National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy report to Parliament...
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Alaska to auction petroleum rights in disputed Arctic waters
Toronto :: Canada | 14 days ago
Credibility The Alaskan government has announced plans to auction an oil and gas lease in a disputed section of the Beaufort Sea along the Yukon-Alaska border — an "incursion" on Canada's Arctic sovereignty that the Conservative government has failed to stop, the...
Tags: Canada-U.S, Beaufort Sea Areawide, U.S. Department of State, Alaskan, State of Alaska, Yukon-Alaska, Dennis Bevington, Canada, Toronto, Geography of Canada, Northwest Passage, Politics, North Slope Borough Alaska, Arctic Ocean, Territorial claims in the Arctic, Foreign relations of Canada, Beaufort Sea, Arctic
Canada an ‘energy superpower' in Arctic, Cannon says
Toronto :: Canada | 15 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 12:22AM EST T he Tory government says it believes in co-operation among the Arctic's coastal nations – as long as everyone is clear on Canada's superior role as an “energy superpower” when it comes to the north....
Tags: Economic Club of Canada, Lawrence Cannon, Canada, Toronto, Arctic, Poles, Northwest Passage, Territorial claims in the Arctic, Environment, Geography of Canada, Arctic Ocean, Shipping routes, Politics, North Pole, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Foreign relations of Canada
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