Arctic science outpost a refuge from the world
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When Soviet leader  Leonid Brezhnev died and the Communist propaganda machine  organized a mass outpouring of grief, Sergei Zimov hardly  noticed.
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A research vessel that was deliberately trapped in the Arctic ice emerges after more than 500 days.
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Are we really heading for an ice-free Arctic? More than 50,000 researchers hope to find an answer during a massive study of how global warming and other phenomena are changing the coldest parts of the Earth _ ...Comment
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PINE FALLS, Manitoba -- Here on the edge of the silent and frozen northern tier of the Earth, the fate of the world's climate is buried beneath the snow and locked in the still limbs of aspen trees.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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A study of warming in the Arctic shows that gases from tailpipes and smokestacks are contributing to profound environmental changes.
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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 by widespread
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The Antarctic base occupied by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole on foot early last century has been included on a list of the world's 100 most endangered sites.
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The Arctic may seem a remote and pristine region, but winds and tides carry man-made toxins to the region, endangering wildlife there, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.
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The Arctic is undergoing rapid and possibly irreversible change, according to a new report prepared for the eight nations which rim the region.
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A new research station at the bottom of the world may give future Antarctica researchers some special treats, like the ability to live above ground and look out a window.
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A thaw of the Arctic icecap is accelerating because of global warming but nations in the region including the United States are deadlocked about how to stop it.
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The Arctic, already a dump for Russian nuclear waste from the Cold War, is also rapidly becoming a chemical sump for the globe, the World Wide Fund for Nature said on Thursday.
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By MICHELLE MACAFEE  WINNIPEG (CP) - About 40 scientists from the University of Manitoba are preparing for one of the largest research projects ever to be conducted in the Arctic.
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REINE, Norway  - "It's as if the Earth ends with these islands," says Bogumil Lewandowski, a Polish construction worker living on Norway's Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle.
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A distinguished group of scientists from Arctic nations, looking at the science on global warming, has issued a report that should give every Alaskan pause.
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For several decades researchers have studied toxin levels in Arctic peoples and wildlife and tracked pollution sources. Peter Ross is a marine mammal toxicologist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sidney, British Columbia.