Denmark to Claim North Pole, Hopes to Find Oil
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Denmark aims to show the North Pole belongs to it and is sending an expedition to try to prove that the seabed there is a natural continuation of Danish territory, the Science Ministry said on Monday.
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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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Denmark will withdraw its troops from Iraq by August, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says.
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It has been a while since anyone could say the sun never sets on the British Empire. But Britain is again trying to extend its reach Â this time to potentially lucrative seabeds in the Antarctic and the Atlantic Ocean.
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A "significant" oil and gas find has been made in the North Sea west of Shetland, it is announced.
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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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Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor
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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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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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The Christian Science Monitor - With one of the world&#39;s 10 largest oil fields, Kazakhstan lies at the heart of a second &quot;Great Game&quot; for Central Asia&#39;s energy resources being played out between the US, Europe, Russia, and China. Amid growing concern that an influx of resource wealth could be siphoned off by corruption and mismanagement, it&#39;s been hailed as the region&#39;s most stable country.
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The Inuit of the Arctic plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the U.S. is threatening their existence.
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A Viking ship has set sail for Denmark in an attempt to recreate voyages undertaken by early Norsemen.
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Polar explorer Will Steger will lead a team across Canada's Baffin Island to document the ways global warming is impacting humans in the far north.
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Norwegian petroleum companies Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA elbowed into the global fray for oil yesterday with a plan to form a state-controlled giant that would be the world's largest offshore oil producer.
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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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The deal will create a global offshore oil giant Energy firms Statoil and Norsk Hydro have unveiled plans to merge their offshore oil and gas operations, creating a global industry giant.Comment
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A tiny speck of pebbles found off the northern coast of Greenland could open up a new front in the looming battle for control of the Arctic and the North Pole.