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Pentagon Releases Strategy for Arctic
2013-11-23 04:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As a shrinking northern ice cap sets the stage for increased competition over natural resources, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday released the Pentagons first Arctic Strategy, intended to safeguard American security interests and the regions environment. Speaking at an international security forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Mr. Hagel described the challenges facing the world as rising global temperatures shrink the polar ice and as Russia, China and other nations compete for economic opportunities...
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Soldier's Network Update: AN/PRC-155 Manpack Radios In The Arctic Circle Connect With MUOS Satellites Orbiting The Equator
2013-11-22 06:59:33| rfglobalnet News Articles
Two General Dynamics C4 Systems-developed AN/PRC-155 two-channel Manpack radios successfully completed secure voice and data calls from Alaska and the Arctic Circle, using the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform to connect with the MUOS satellite and ground communications network.
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Arctic 30: Six Britons still Russian detention despite bail orders
2013-11-21 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: All but four of the Arctic 30, arrested aboard a Greenpeace icebreaker two months ago, have now been granted bail by St Petersburg courts, and 11 of the 30 have actually been released. But so far none of the six Britons involved has been able to leave detention. On Thursday, Frank Hewetson, a 45-year-old logistics co-ordinator from north London, and Iain Rogers, a crew member on the Arctic Sunrise, joined communications officer Alexandra Harris, activist Anthony Perrett and journalist Kieron Bryan...
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Arctic 30 Briton freed on bail by Russian court
2013-11-20 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A court in St Petersburg has ruled that Alexandra Harris, one of six Britons among the Arctic 30 charged by Russian authorities with hooliganism, can be freed on bail. The ruling comes after nine foreign citizens and three Russians were granted bail requests earlier in the week and appears to signal the first relaxation of Russia's tough stance on the Greenpeace activists, arrested two months ago after a protest against oil drilling in the Pechora sea. An emotional Harris begged the judge to set...
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Arctic oil spill is certain if drilling goes ahead, says top scientist
2013-11-19 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A serious oil spill in the Arctic is a "dead cert" if drilling goes ahead, with potentially devastating consequences for the pristine region, according to a leading marine scientist who played a key role in analysis of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The warning came as Russia filed court orders this week to have Greenpeace activists and journalists kept in prison for a further three months in prison before their trial over a protest at Arctic oil dirlling. Concerns about the potentially dire...
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