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Ice-Free Arctic by... This Summer?!

treehugger.com     28-Jun-2008   230 related          

by greenz.jp, Tokyo, Japan on 06.28.08 . And now, the latest forecasts suggest that there is a 50/50 chance we may see an ice-free Arctic Circle by the end of this summer, MSNBC reported today. While a complete melt of all...                    

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Greenpeace - Making Waves: IWC wrap-up - everyone's "talking" but whales are no better off

greenpeace.org     27-Jun-2008   327 related          

At last... IWC60, also known as the 60th International Whaling Commission meeting, is now over. I started writing blog in the press room yesterday, while listening to the incredible (and often entertaining) rhetoric emanating...                    

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Greenland bid to raise whale hunt quota fails

buzzflash.net     27-Jun-2008   23 related          

Anti-whale catching nations on Thursday thwarted a bid by Greenland to raise its annual aboriginal whale hunting quota by 10 humpbacks, deeply polarizing pro and anti-whaling lobbies. A moratorium on commercial whaling was...                    

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The lost generation, and possibly much more

grinzo.com     25-Jun-2008   5 related          

Read the article Rising seas threaten west Antarctic, and it’s all but impossible to think, yet again, of all the chances to take serious, desperately needed action on CO2 emissions that we’ve thrown away over the last twenty...                    

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How Quickly Can Climate Change?

theatlantic.com     24-Jun-2008   7 related          

Some sobering data from excavations in Greenland: The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back...                    

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Greenland was once very Green

accuweather.com     24-Jun-2008   3 related          

Is this what southern Greenland looked like 400,000 years ago? More from those Greenland ice cores............ Scientists from the University of Quebec at Montreal looked at pollen within the sediment ice cores dating back...                    

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Arctic Ocean Swirls

redorbit.com     22-Jun-2008   1 related          

Credit: ESA, Posted on: Sunday, 22 June 2008, 10:28 CDT Download full size image This Envisat image captures the marginal ice zone, a region that forms at the boundary of open and frozen oceans, of the Greenland Sea during the...                    

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Iceland Shoots Second Lost, Starving Polar Bear in a Month

typepad.com     19-Jun-2008   35 related          

At the beginning of the month I posted about a lost, starving Polar Bear that had been shot by police in Iceland after it had swam 200 miles from Greenland or the nearest chunk of Arctic ice. They said they were afraid it posed...                    

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Greenland Ice Core Shows Ice Age Temperatures Rose 22 Degrees In 50 years

scientificblogging.com     19-Jun-2008   100 related          

Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental...                    

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United States Artic Animals Stamps

stampcenter.com     19-Jun-2008          

I was watching one of the nature shows on cable television a couple days ago that featured many of the majestic Artic animals that exist today. Their sheer beauty and grace prompted me to do some research to find out if the...                    

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