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Arctic nations to bar fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the north pole
2015-07-16 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The United States, Russia and other Arctic nations signed an agreement on Thursday to bar their fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the north pole. The accord, also signed in Oslo by the ambassadors of Canada, Norway and Denmark, is a response to global warming, which is melting sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean, an area the size of the Mediterranean. The deal had been delayed by more than a year by tensions over Ukraine. The central Arctic probably has no commercial fish stocks...
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