Barents Sea 'faces major threats'
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The pristine Arctic waters of the Barents Sea are overfished and face serious pollution problems, the UN says.
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A nuclear waste dump in the Russia Arctic may be in danger of exploding because of corrosion caused by salt water in enormous storage tanks, the Norwegian environmental group Bellona warned Friday.
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Scientists have worries about the Arctic warming as they have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting too rapidly .
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Wrecks and abandoned munitions around the British coast risk exploding unpredictably, an expert says.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the protections they can provide.
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The Russian government claimed on Monday that a nuclear waste dump in the Russian Arctic is safe, responding to a Norwegian environmental group's warning that the site may be in danger of exploding because of corrosion from salt water.
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The first thorough assessment of a decadeslong Arctic warming trend shows the region is undergoing profound changes, including sharp retreats of glaciers and sea ice, thawing of permafrost
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North Korea's nuclear weapons capability poses a threat to Russian interests, the chief Russian negotiator at international talks with Pyongyang has said.
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Atmospheric warming threatens to disrupt Arctic oil pipelines in the US and Russia as melting ice caps turn the permafrost into a ``sea of mud,&#39;&#39; an international scientific report said.
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Global warming and disappearing sea ice in the Southern Ocean are causing food shortages that could threaten Antarctic whales, seals and penguins, scientists said Wednesday.
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A Japanese whaling ship on fire off the  coast of Antarctica has sparked fears of an environmental  disaster if the ship's 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and chemicals  leaks.
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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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The Coast Guard is planning its first operating base in the Arctic as a way of dealing with ships that are already beginning to ply the Arcticâs increasingly ice-free waters.
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The northern end of the Bay of Bengal could be at risk of giant earthquakes and tsunamis in the coming decades, scientists say.
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Rising sea levels are threatening parts of the Giant's Causeway and other NI coastal areas.
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Norwegian ship owners threaten to expand a lockout, disrupting production. Marsh &amp; McLennan&#39;s CEO reportedly is set to resign.