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- Giant chunks break off ice shelf in Canadian Arctic
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday. In a development consistent with climate change theories, the enormous icy plain broke free sometime last week and began slowly drifting into the Arctic Ocean. The piece had been a part of the shelf for 3,000 years.
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- Oil companies get OK to annoy polar bears
  Posted by derek from Seattle Times
  Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
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- Winter Arctic sea ice near record low - Climate Change
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Low sea ice levels this winter — the world's warmest on record, according to the U.S. government — are part of a trend toward less ice. And when the ice is gone, the sun will heat the ocean's much faster...the ice reflects the suns heat at the poles.
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- Arctic polar route emerges
  Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!
  European scientists voiced shock as they showed pictures which showed Arctic ice cover had disappeared so much last month that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe's most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself. "If this anomaly continues, the Northeast Passage, or 'Northern Sea Route' between Europe and Asia will be open over longer intervals of time, and it is conceivable we might see attempts at sailing around the world directly across the summer Arctic Ocean within the next 10 to 20 years," said Mark Drinkwater of ESA's Oceans/Ice Unit.
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- Polar bears drown, islands appear in Arctic thaw
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Polar bears are drowning and receding Arctic glaciers have uncovered previously unknown islands in a drastic 2006 summer thaw widely blamed on global warming. Signs of wrenching changes are apparent around the Arctic region due to unusual warmth -- the summer minimum for ice is usually reached between mid-September and early October before the Arctic freeze extends its grip. "We know about three new islands this year that have been uncovered because the glaciers have retreated," said Rune Bergstrom, environmental adviser to the governor of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago about 600 miles from the North Pole.
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- Bears thrive in Arctic on new Iron Curtain route
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  The brown bears are apparently benefiting from the end of the Cold War when they were used as targets by bored or jittery Soviet guards on the desolate icy frontier between NATO member Norway and the Soviet Union. "The bear population seems to be increasing," said Martin Smith, an American bear researcher who works at the Svanhovd Environmental Center in the remote pine and birch forests of the Pasvik Valley which divides Norway and Russia.
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- Shivering and Unsung, Scientists Monitor the Arctic Year After Year After Year
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  Such monitoring, whether in unremarkable places or at the ends of the earth, is unsung and underfinanced, but it has resulted in some of the most important discoveries about how the world is changing under the increasingly global influence of humans, many scientists say.
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Damianmann comments on:
Oil companies get OK to annoy polar bears

They’ve surely managed to annoy ME.

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9:55 pm 6/14/08

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