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Campaigners Drop Flag Under N.Pole Ice Amid "Cold Rush" Concerns
2013-04-16 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmentalists have placed a flag on the seabed under the North Pole to urge protection for the region in a rebuff to Russia which planted a flag in 2007 in a symbolic territorial claim. Four campaigners, backed by Greenpeace, cut a hole in the ice at the North Pole at the weekend and dropped the flag and a capsule with almost 3 million signatures asking for the region to be off-limits to exploitation, Greenpeace said on Monday. A Russian submarine planted a flag on the seabed in the same...
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