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Norwegians want sunken ship “Maud” back from Canada
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by Raven,
Jul 20, 2011 04:47 PM
- From a “Globe and Mail – Canada” article: The ship has sat at the bottom of an Arctic fjord in Canada for the better part of a century, but now there is an ...
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“Nessie” in Alaska ?
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by Raven,
Jul 20, 2011 04:43 PM
- From a “Mail Online” article: Does Alaska have it's own Loch Ness monster ? In 2009, a local fisherman captured the unidentified creature on film. Of course, ...
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Underwater Volcanoes discovered in Antarctica
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by Raven,
Jul 19, 2011 08:52 PM
- From various articles: A slew of previously undiscovered underwater volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands, have been ...
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Eskimo whalers upbeat after International Whaling Commission meeting
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by Raven,
Jul 19, 2011 08:31 PM
- Joint Press Release from the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission & North Slope Borough:
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Aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW)
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by Raven,
Jul 19, 2011 08:25 PM
- From a "BBC News" article: Aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW), or indigenous subsistence whaling, as it's to be known in future, is not without its critics. ...
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Arctic military bases for Canada ?
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by Raven,
Jul 19, 2011 08:07 PM
- From various articles: At present the Canadian military is exploring a way to cut costs and speed up the movement of troops and equipment in the vast and ...
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New ice patrol ship for the UK
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by Raven,
Jul 19, 2011 07:34 PM
- From a "Defence Web" article: The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected the icebreaker MV Polarbjorn (Polar Bear), renamed the HMS Protector, ...
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Largest Arctic Iceberg Spotted
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by Raven,
Jul 12, 2011 08:31 PM
- From an "Our Amazing Planet" article: It is the largest Arctic Iceberg formed in 50 years ! The massive ice island that broke off a glacier in Greenland 11 ...
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How Irish are Arctic Polar Bears ?
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by Raven,
Jul 12, 2011 08:22 PM
- From various articles: They might look pure white, but the polar bears inhabiting Canada's Arctic apparently have faint traces of brown, and a dash of shamrock ...
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Antarctic krill help to fertilise Southern Ocean with iron
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by Raven,
Jul 12, 2011 07:51 PM
- Press Release from the British Antarctic Survey, 4th July 2011: A new discovery reveals that the shrimp-like creature at the heart of the Antarctic food chain ...
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Effort to find out what became of the 1845 Franklin expedition cranks into high gear
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by Raven,
Jul 04, 2011 09:19 PM
- From various articles: Will this be the Summer when the world will finally learn what happened to the doomed ships of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to ...
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Daring rescue flight from Antarctica
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by Raven,
Jul 04, 2011 09:11 PM
- From various articles: Despite hazardous conditions that included temperatures of 40 degrees below zero, ash clouds from Chilean volcanoes and small ...
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Rainbow Warrior III taking shape
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by Raven,
Jul 04, 2011 08:58 PM
- From various articles: Environmental pressure group Greenpeace's latest weapon is nearing completion: the state-of-the-art Rainbow Warrior III istaking shape ...
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Sea monster probably a whale
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by Raven,
Jul 04, 2011 08:48 PM
- From a "Discovery News" article: A 55-foot-long marine animal recently washed up dead on a beach at Guangdong, China. As beachgoers think that a sea monster is ...
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Southern right whales returning to New Zealand
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by Raven,
Jul 04, 2011 08:50 PM
- From various articles: They were almost hunted to extinction more than a century ago and unable to remember their ancestral calving grounds, the Southern ...
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Decrease in Antarctic tourism to continue
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by Raven,
Jun 21, 2011 09:14 PM
- From a "Wanderlust" article: During the 2010-2011 season, Antarctica has seen a significant drop in travellers to the continent, a trend which is expected to ...
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The world's largest falcon is a secret seabird
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by Raven,
Jun 21, 2011 08:52 PM
- From a "BBC Nature" article: Scientists have discovered that the world's largest falcon, the fast, taloned Gyrfalcon, a bird living in the high Arctic, is ...
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Search for historic Franklin expedition to continue this summer ?
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by Raven,
Jun 21, 2011 08:41 PM
- From a "Montreal Gazette" article: A Parks Canada's spokeswoman said officials are working with several partners in the federal and Nunavut governments ...
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Canadians fight proposal to move Arctic exploration ship
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by Raven,
Jun 06, 2011 09:39 PM
- From an "AlaskaDispatch" article: a ship that once belonged to famed polar explorer Roald Amundsen, might be lifted out of Canadian waters and taken to ...
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Russia's clean up on Svalbard
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by Raven,
Jun 06, 2011 09:29 PM
- From a "BarentsObserver" article: some 186 million rubles will be spend by Russia to clean up after Russia's activity on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
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Underwater survey to boost Canada's Arctic domain nearly finished
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by Raven,
Jun 01, 2011 01:26 PM
- From a "Vancouver Sun" article: A High Arctic mapping expedition this summer along a mysterious undersea mountain chain near the North Pole will mark the ...
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The penguin who doesn't want to swim
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by Raven,
Jun 01, 2011 01:13 PM
- From a "Newslite" article: Staff at the International Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, have taken a penguin in their care that does not like ...
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Reindeer and their UV vision
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by Raven,
May 30, 2011 02:22 PM
- From various articles: since moving to the Arctic 10,000 years ago, Reindeers have developed the ability to see their world in glorious ultraviolet, helping ...
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Global warming jeopardizing ice highways
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by Raven,
May 30, 2011 02:09 PM
- From various "Globe and Mail" articles: According to a new research; the warming climate could melt away the winter lifelines, the iceroads that are the frozen ...
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Argentina's refurbished ice-breaker
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by Raven,
May 30, 2011 01:48 PM
- From a "MercoPress" article: The Argentine navy icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” should be back fully refurbished and operational for the 2012/2013 Antarctic ...
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Circumpolar Inuit set development conditions
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by Raven,
May 18, 2011 09:52 PM
- From an "Anglican Journal" article: Mary Simon, national Inuit leader, welcomed the release of the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Resource Development ...
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Denmark plans to claim North Pole
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by Raven,
May 18, 2011 09:08 PM
- From various articles: Denmark plans to lay claim to the North Pole and other areas in the Arctic, where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing ...
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NSF gives company Raytheon extended contract for Antarctica
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by Raven,
Apr 13, 2011 09:36 PM
- From various articles: Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has received a one-year extension to its contract with the ...
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Chile to become a leader for research in and travel to Antarctica ?
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by Raven,
Apr 12, 2011 09:52 PM
- From various articles: The Chilean government has approved a new investment program which could make the world’s southernmost town, Puerto Williams a centre ...
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Tom Crean remembered with Greenland peak
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by Raven,
Apr 12, 2011 09:23 PM
- From a "BBC" article: The Irish Polar explorer Tom Crean has been commemorated with a Greenland 700 metre mountain peak bearing his name.
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