Denmark to Claim North Pole, Hopes to Strike Oil
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Denmark aims to claim the North Pole and hunt for oil in high Arctic regions that may become more accessible because of global warming, the Science Ministry said Monday.
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Denmark is considering boosting its contingent in Afghanistan by 200 troops to 600, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday.Comment
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Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map. Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand -- so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it ... via Ann Arbor News
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Oil prices rose for the second day in a row on Thursday with an Arctic blast forecast to hit the United States next week, ramping up demand for heating fuels.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will travel to Copenhagen next week for talks with his Danish counterpart Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the situation in Iraq.
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FAROE Petroleum, the Aim-listed oil and gas minnow, will today be awarded exploration rights from the Faroe Islands' second-round licensing for two new sites in the North Atlantic margin area.
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When Norway awards new licenses for oil and gas drilling this summer, it will focus on the South Barents Sea, where one-third of Norway's undiscovered petroleum resources are estimated to lie, energy ministry officials said Friday.
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Russia will file a claim to the gigantic  mineral wealth of the Arctic seabed with the United Nations by  the end of the year, Russia's natural resources minister was  quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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Denmark should follow Britain's lead and also announce a timetable for pulling back its troops from southern Iraq, the foreign affairs spokesman for the main opposition party said Wednesday.Comment
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A shipment of oil that North Korea has said it is awaiting before it begins to shut its nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament deal set sail from the South on Thursday, a port official said.
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Rising global temperatures will melt areas of the Arctic this century, making them more accessible for oil and natural gas drilling, a report prepared by the United States and seven other nations said on Monday.
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A Coast Guard reconnaissance team is heading to the far north this week to scope out a final frontier that is opening up to ship traffic in a warming Arctic climate.
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Denmark's ruling Liberal Party, moving to capitalize on its popularity, on Tuesday announced plans to hold national elections next month.
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Denmark is vying with Russia in a race to map the Arctic seabed and stake a claim to its resources.
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After 25 years of internal autonomy, the icy Danish territory of Greenland has set its sights on true independence, hoping that talks on the modernization of a US military base on the island may have helped nudge it closer to its goal.
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Inuit hunters threatened by an accelerating thaw of the Arctic want to amend a U.N. convention to put pressure on Washington to do more to slow global warming, an Inuit leader said on Thursday.
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To extract oil from the Jack field, a rig will have to negotiate freezing waters, boiling oil and seismic uncertainty. Hereâs how.