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Headline	Author	Published	Section
I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants Toxic industrial chemicals, carried north by wind, ocean, and river currents, are polluting the traditional diet of native Arctic peoples in Greenland and Arctic Canada. The pollutants, including PCBs and up to 200 other hazardous compounds, are first consumed by zooplankton, then trav ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, food and agriculture, health, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Arctic Circle of Friends Rebel Foam Manufacturer Faces Difficulties in Greening His Industry		22 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Arctic Circle of Friends Rebel Foam Manufacturer Faces Difficulties in Greening His Industry A new international project to clean up the Russian Arctic was unveiled in London today, and enviros say it's about time. Although the entire Arctic suffers from contamination by poisonous heavy metals, radioactive leaks, and industrial chemicals, the Russian portion of the region is worse off than any other. The $30 mi ...
Topics: Arctic, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

The Ice, Man, Cometh Arctic's Biggest Ice Shelf Breaks Apart, Signaling Increased Warming		23 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Ice, Man, Cometh Arctic's Biggest Ice Shelf Breaks Apart, Signaling Increased Warming A 3,000-year-old ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, has broken into pieces over the past two years, highlighting significant warming trends, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists said they couldn't determine whether the melting was related to increased ...
Topics: Arctic, Arctic Ocean, climate, energy (all these topics)

Overheard at the North Pole ...	Suzy Becker	27 Jan 2003	Ha.

Topics: Arctic, climate, ozone (all these topics)

Polar Bear Market		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Polar Bear Market The polar bear -- that pinnacle of megafauna adulation -- could disappear from the planet this century as a result of global warming, according to a top scientist. The Arctic-dwelling animal, which is the world's largest land predator, is thought to be particularly susceptible to climate change because it relies on floating sea ice to catch seals and hitch lifts from feeding grounds back to denning area ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Green Unpleasant Land		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Green Unpleasant Land A record quantity of northern polar ice was lost this year, according to scientists who presented their findings at a conference of the American Geophysical Union held this weekend in San Francisco. Surface melt in Greenland, for example, was the highest in recorded history, and extended to previously unaffected altitudes. In total, there were about 265,000 square miles of melt on the Greenland ice ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, Greenland, ozone (all these topics)

Half and Half		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Half and Half In the interest of living up to our reputation for providing the occasional sliver of cheery environmental news, Grist is pleased to report that notwithstanding rampant ecological degradation, nearly half of the land on Earth remains undeveloped and unpopulated, according to an international study released earlier this week. The study -- the most comprehensive such ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, Conservation International, land degradation, wildlife (all these topics)

Old Flame		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Old Flame The chemicals in fire-resistant products help keep your home safe -- but they appear to be endangering species in the Norwegian Arctic. Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are showing up in high concentrations in the region's polar bears, whose cubs have a lower survival rate than elsewhere, as well as in the eggs of local seabirds, which area residents have been advised not to eat. Other affected species in ...
Topics: Arctic, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Who's the Unfairest of Them All		05 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Who's the Unfairest of Them All A major gas field development in the Arctic Circle's Barents Sea has won official approval from the European Free Trade Area, much to the dismay of environmentalists. Norway's state-owned energy group Statoil is running the $5.8 billion project, which will be the first commercial exploration of fossil fuel in the region and Europe's fi ...
Topics: Arctic, commercial and industry organizations, marine life, mining and drilling, Norway (all these topics)

The Hunt for Cold October		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Hunt for Cold October That's all fine and dandy for panda bears, but the outlook is grimmer for their northern (non)cousins, polar bears. Polar bears face a number of threats -- widespread habitat fragmentation, pollution, excessive hunting -- but the most serious menace of all is climate change, according to a report issued yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund. Rising temperatures at the top of the world are melt ...
Topics: Arctic, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Andes Minced		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Ecuador, renewable energy (all these topics)

Good As Goldman		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Good As Goldman Three Gwich'in Native Americans who battled oil development in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have been doubly rewarded for their efforts: Last week, the Senate voted to block oil drilling in the refuge, and today, the activists are being honored with this year's Goldman Prize, the world's biggest ...
Topics: Arctic, deforestation, energy, environmental restoration, logging, mining and drilling, Poland, Puerto Rico, Somalia, Thailand (all these topics)

Polar Bare Naked Climate change is threatening Arctic critters	Donella H. Meadows	05 Feb 2001	Global Citizen
The place to watch for global warming -- the sensitive point, the canary in the coal mine -- is the Arctic. If the planet as a whole warms by one degree, the poles will warm by about three degrees. Which is just what is happening. Polar bears are walking on thin ice. Ice now covers 15 percent less of the Arctic Ocean than it did 20 years ago. In the 1950s that ice averaged 10-feet thick; now it's les ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, wildlife (all these topics)

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