"The polar bear, a symbol of Canada`s far north as well as the effects of climate change on the sensitive Arctic environment, is in trouble, but it is not endangered or threatened with extinction, a Canadian...
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""OSLO, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- The polar cap in the Arctic may well disappear this summer due to the global warming, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, said."" "If...
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"Press Review 22 January 2008
Tuesday
by Frank Scimone
22-01-2008
Geert Wilders"Wilders, Wilders, Wilders" screams another full-page article over Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders in today's Volkskrant. This time however de Volkskrant is not reporting about the Dutch...
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"India successfully launched an Israeli satellite Monday in a mission carried out under a veil of secrecy, the NDTV news channel reported, citing officials at the Indian space agency.
The channel quoted unnamed officials at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as...
"Tourism at the End of the World
By Stephen Leahy*
So-called “climate tourism” is a mix of legitimate interest in protecting nature, the desire to see rare wildlife on the verge of extinction, and, of course, the search for profit.
TORONTO, Jan 14 (Tierramérica).- -...
Could this mean a global warming El Dorado? Or perhaps a means for humans to show their ability to adapt...."Global warming will present rewards for businesses who are quick to adapt to the new opportunities from...
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A female polar bear cub separated from it mother (who had some issues, apparently) is poised to become Germany's next child star. Speculation is rampant (in German papers, at least) that the currently-unnamed tyke...
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"It's time to figure out how to build self-sustaining cities in the polar regions because climate change will eventually make most of Earth uninhabitable."
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There's a plethora of traditions that surround boxing day. Most include some form of shopping - but others focus on the giving rather than the taking. Most notably, the community of Ventnor where they have an...
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"Listening to their current stump speeches, Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton seem like polar opposites. The Democratic lightening rod and the former New England governor appear to offer voters a contrasting vision...
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Expedition Medicine at the South Pole
Dr Sean Hudson is a director of Expedition Medicine
A chance meeting at a MRT conference in 2007 led to the opportunity to help set up the most remote expedition clinic...
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"Knut, the world-famous polar bear, turned one today and polished off a giant fish cake at a birthday party in Berlin Zoo that was broadcast live on German television.
Hundreds of children gathered at the zoo with birthday cards for the bear, who became a tourist magnet after...
Sure, a UK judge has deemed that climate change has not led to an increase in polar bear drownings, as stated in Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, due to increased melting sea ice. However, recently published...
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