Arctic thaw could open vast oil and gas region
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An accelerating thaw of the Arctic may open vast regions for oil and gas exploration but that brings worries of spills in the fragile environment, experts said on Thursday.
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Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced
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Scientists present one of the most dramatic forecasts for the disappearance of Arctic summer sea-ice.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods
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By JEANNETTE J. LEE  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne expressed confidence in an upcoming oil lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska when he visited the North Slope last week.
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Any serious effort to ease America&#39;s addiction to Middle East oil starts near this Alberta boomtown cut out of Canada&#39;s great boreal forest.
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Not all of the Arctic thaw is caused by man. Nature plays a role, too, but that doesn't let us off the hook for the damage we've done.
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A laboratory perched on a windswept ridge in the Arctic should reveal vital clues about our changing planet.
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The terms of a proposal to develop and ship North Slope gas have Alaskans up in arms.
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Global warming is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods of millions of people and could wipe out polar bears by 2100, according to an eight-nation report released on Monday.
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New mapping data could bolster any claims the U.S. might make in the Arctic as nations in the region compete for potentially rich reserves of oil, gas and minerals buried beneath the sea floor, federal scientists said Monday.
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Global warming is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens millions of livelihoods and could wipe
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In the next 100 years, Alaska will experience a massive loss of its historic tundra, as global warming allows these vast regions of cold, dry, lands to support forests and other vegetation that will dramatically alter native ecosystems.
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Russia, the world's biggest country, announces an audacious plan to annex a vast 460,000 square mile chunk of the Arctic.
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A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic but experts say icebergs and high costs will prevent any trans-polar shipping boom.
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Technological advances and Americans' hearty appetite for natural gas have given Anadarko Petroleum Corp. the opportunity to break new ground Â literally and figuratively Â in this remote, rugged region of the Rocky Mountains.
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The warming Arctic is again making news, with a heap of findings unveiled at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.