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Polar Code acknowldeges Arctic Ocean and wildlife warrant special international protection
2015-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: Imagine traveling seas beset by hurricane-force winds, extreme waves, poorly charted waters, and long seasons of darkness. Where calls for help may not be readily answered. Now, imagine pristine seas where exotic wildlife, some traveling great distances to feed or have their young, are found in abundance. A place that has sustained capable, local people for millennia. This is not a science fiction adventure to some far-off planet. Instead, both descriptions could be applied to navigating Arctic...
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Kongsberg Maritime to support Norways new polar research vessel
2015-05-14 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has selected marine technology firm Kongsberg Maritime's hydroacoustic systems package for a new polar research vessel.
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850-pound polar bear arrives at St. Louis zoo via FedEx
2015-05-08 19:23:10| Air Courier - Topix.net
Imagine a FedEx delivery person showing up on your doorstep with an 850-pound polar bear and saying, "Can you sign for this?" That's essentially what happened to the St. Louis Zoo on May 8. Kali, a 2-year-old male polar bear was delivered to the zoo from Rochester, New York, courtesy of FedEx. Kali had been living at the Buffalo Zoo since 2013.
Polar meltdown sees us on an icy road to disaster
2015-05-04 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Amundsen sea sector in west Antarctica is almost as big as France. Six glaciers drain into it and one of the largest of these is the Pine Island glacier, a 30-kilometre-wide estuary of ice that is more than 500km in length. Stand on it, on a clear day, and swaths of glittering ice stretch off to the horizon in every direction. This is one of the worlds greatest bodies of fresh water, a vast frozen reservoir weighing more than 300tn tonnes. With that sort of resource, you could solve a great...
Polar Bears to People: Momentum on Climate Change
2015-04-20 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In the past several months, there has been much troubling news for all who are concerned about polar bears. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations hit 400 parts per million, higher than any time in perhaps 3 million years. The global average air temperature for all of 2014 was the highest on record. The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice this winter was the lowest ever recorded. My colleagues and I published papers showing that: land-based foods cannot sustain polar bears forced off the melting ice; the key...
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