US urged to help slow Arctic thaw
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Arctic indigenous people urge the US to cut gas emissions to slow down  the thaw of the polar ice.
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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 the livelihoods of millions of people and could wipe out polar bears by 2100, according to an eight-nation report released on Monday.
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Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest area on record this year, researchers in the US confirm.
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BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their
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WASHINGTON -- Eight nations with Arctic territory agreed yesterday to fight glacial melting and other effects of climate change in the region, though they declined to endorse any new steps to counter global warming out of deference to the Bush administration.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods
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In a move environmentalists call a modest victory, the world&#39;s eight Arctic nations, including the United States, have agreed that climate change is threatening northern ecosystems and greenhouse gases must be limited.
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A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic but experts say
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Although faced with fresh evidence of global warming, the United States and other members the Arctic Council on Wednesday failed to make any recommendations to combat a problem most scientists say is causing sea ice to melt and temperatures to rise.
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Although faced with fresh evidence of global warming, the United States and other members the Arctic Council on Wednesday failed to make any recommendations
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Eight Arctic countries will make scant promises to slow a rapid thaw of the region linked to global warming at a meeting in Iceland on Wednesday after U.S. opposition to firmer action, delegates said.
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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 &#151; and what that means for the rest of it.
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A prominent US climate scientist makes a personal plea to the UK and Germany to block new coal-fired power stations.
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REYKJAVIK - Eight Arctic countries agreed on small steps to brake a rapid thaw of the region on Wednesday with indigenous peoples accusing Washington of blocking stronger action meant to slow global warming.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 20  - US Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Friday there had not yet been a large enough disruption to the supply of oil to warrant a decision to tap the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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WASHINGTON - Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by widespread melting of glaciers, thinning sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures.
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High-level politicians from the eight nations that make up the Arctic Council met in Reykjavik on Wednesday to discuss ways of combating global warming, which researchers say could melt away the Arctic ice cover within the next 100 years.