Russia eyes vast Arctic territory
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Russian geologists say they have data that would support a claim to a huge energy-rich area in the Arctic.
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Canada has said it will build two military facilities in the Arctic. Are we witnessing a scramble for resources in the region?
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Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to the enormous oil and gas reserves of its neighbors.
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Two polar explorers are to embark on a 4,300km trek across the Arctic to collect data and highlight climate change.
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Just below the Arctic circle, amid sprawling tundra forests that are the only sign of life for hundreds of miles, geologists from Russia's state diamond monopoly Alrosa drill deep into grayish mud in search of precious gems.
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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 Thursday.
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Russia is urged to reconsider a pipeline plan which it is feared could wipe out the world's rarest big cat.
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REYKJAVIK: Arctic people aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer the most.
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The Russians take marketing to a whole new level Â one 200 miles above the Earth.
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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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The US offers rights for oil and gas in an area of north-western Alaska renowned for its wildlife.
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Russia on Friday sent 12 air force  bombers to take part in naval exercises over the Arctic and  North Atlantic oceans, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a spokesman  for Russia's air force as saying.
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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 joining Russia and Canada to see if it can lay a claim to the North Pole &#151; and whatever natural riches may lie beneath it.
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Vladimir Putin could become the leader of a land even larger than Russia Â a development that may hinge on talks beginning Thursday in neighboring Belarus.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits China this week, a much-debated plan to build a pipeline eastward from Russia's Siberian oil fields is likely to top the agenda.
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UST-BOLSHERETSK, Russia  - For a rare visitor to the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, no other custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and environment than salmon poaching.