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  • August 2008

    • US Ship Joins Race for Arctic Resources

      Reuters  |  Aug 12, 08 1:50 PM CDT

      US Ship Joins Race for Arctic Resources

      (Newser) - A Coast Guard cutter will this week begin mapping Alaska’s continental shelf, Reuters reports, in a first step toward mining data that could be used to establish rights to oil exploration in the Arctic. Melting ice caps, which one scientist calls "bad for the Arctic, but very very good for mapping," are believed to hold the next big energy bonanza. More »

  • July 2008

    • Arctic Holds 3 Years of Oil

      Reuters  |  Jul 24, 08 7:24 AM CDT

      Arctic Holds 3 Years of Oil

      (Newser) - Enough oil is believed to lie under the rapidly thawing Arctic to last the world 3 years, Reuters reports. The USGS released a forecast yesterday estimating the region has 90 billion recoverable barrels of oil and vast natural gas reserves. The agency's director said the information was vital in order to weigh the potential destruction caused by drilling versus the benefits. More »

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      Arctic  • Arctic oil  • Arctic race  • oil reserves  • US Geological Survey  • oil field

    • Arctic Boom Awash in Green Risk

      Yale Environment 360  |  Jul 10, 08 1:42 PM CDT

      Arctic Boom Awash in Green Risk

      (Newser) - As the Arctic sea ice melts, it’s uncovering vast resources, leading to an international energy and mining rush. Companies are lining up to explore the region, and nations are reviving Arctic border disputes in hopes of tapping its wealth. But the exploitation of the area’s resources could have dire environmental consequences, Ed Struzik writes on Yale Environment 360. More »

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      Canada  • Arctic  • Arctic race  • mining  • Exxon Valdez  • minerals

  • May 2008

    • Greens Blast Arctic 'Carve Up'

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 29, 08 4:49 AM CDT

      Greens Blast Arctic 'Carve Up'

      (Newser) - Environmentalists are slamming an agreement reached at a closed-door meeting among nations with Arctic claims as a resource free-for-all, the Guardian reports. Ministers from the US, Canada, Russia, Denmark, and Norway insist they simply agreed to abide by the law of the sea—but green groups charge that the nations are arranging who'll get to grab resources as global warming melts the ice. More »

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      oil  • Arctic  • ice melt  • Arctic race  • Arctic Sea

  • March 2008

    • EU Steels for Global Warming Conflict With Russians

      Reuters  |  Mar 7, 08 6:21 AM CST

      EU Steels for Global Warming Conflict With Russians

      (Newser) - The already-fraught relationship between Europe and Russia is bound to get worse in the next few decades. That's the sobering conclusion of a new European Union report on global warming and international politics, which concludes that climate change will act as a "threat multiplier," exacerbating today's problems and generating new ones. In the Arctic, the Middle East and the Caribbean, ecological transformations will have global political consequences, reports Reuters. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • environment  • European Union  • European Commission  • Arctic race

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • US Blunts Arctic Oil Warning

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 23, 08 2:18 PM CST

      US Blunts Arctic Oil Warning

      (Newser) - A top researcher for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was poised this week to deliver a stern warning against the oil drilling operations sweeping the Arctic—until politicians pulled the teeth from his report, Der Spiegel reports. The report needed approval from the Arctic council that commissioned it—but the US and Sweden insisted on watering down the document. More »

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      climate change  • United States  • Arctic  • Sweden  • Arctic oil  • Arctic race

  • October 2007

    • Canada Asserts Arctic Authority

      BBC  |  Oct 8, 07 2:55 PM CDT

      Canada Asserts Arctic Authority

      (Newser) - In the wake of this summer's record-shattering Arctic melting, Canada is asserting its control over the Northwest Passage, increasing patrols, and planning to build a military base, the BBC reports. Apparently undeterred by competing claims to the legendary waterway, the head of the Canadian Coast Guard says it's "important to assert your control over your country and your territorial waters." More »

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      climate change  • Canada  • Arctic  • Arctic race  • Canadian Arctic

  • September 2007

    • Sailors Find Iceless NW Passage

      Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 13, 07 8:40 PM CDT

      Sailors Find Iceless NW Passage

      (Newser) - It's smooth sailing in the Arctic nowadays. Even in recent years, the ice was apt to claim adventurers who dared navigate the Northwest Passage. This year the passage has no ice. And with global warming claiming some 38,000 square miles of ice a year, the Journal reports, the Arctic could be open to commercial and recreational sailing by 2020. More »

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      climate change  • Arctic  • ice melt  • Arctic race  • polar ice caps  • boats  • Northwest Passage

  • August 2007

    • Danes Join Scramble for Arctic

      Toronto Star (Canada)  |  Aug 11, 07 1:20 PM CDT

      Danes Join Scramble for Arctic

      (Newser) - A Danish expedition is set to head for the Arctic tomorrow, joining the scramble to claim polar territories. A team of 40 scientists and massive icebreakers are heading north to prove that a 2,000-kilometer underwater mountain range stretching to the pole is an extension of Greenland, and accordingly belongs to Denmark. But Canada and Russia are also calling dibs on the ridge and its untapped resources. More »

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      Russia  • global warming  • United Nations  • Canada  • Arctic  • Denmark  • Stephen Harper  • Greenland  • North Pole  • Arctic race

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