Arctic warming We all know the Arctic is getting warmer.
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In the Arctic and sub-Arctic, however 2019 has been usual.
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An increasingly dark Arctic Ocean will amplify warming in the Arctic.
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But what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.
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Arctic-wide view of projected temperature anomalies in the Arctic on Jan.
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This process, and other Arctic feedback loops, are known as Arctic amplification.
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Shrinking Arctic sea iceEvery September, Arctic sea ice hits its minimum extent.
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Recognizing the significant capability gaps in the Arctic, the White House unveiled its Arctic strategy, creating the Arctic Executive Steering Committee to realign U.S. focus.
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These investments mean preserving the health of our Arctic population, ensuring the security of our Arctic infrastructure and defending vital Arctic lands and sea lanes.
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"What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic," he says.
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"... The Arctic of today is different in many respects from the Arctic of the past century, or even the Arctic of 22011 years ago," the report states.
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Fifty-three million years ago, the Arctic wasn't the Arctic we know and love.
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Kerry has also focused on Arctic issues, representing the U.S. since 2015 as chairman of the Arctic Council, a group of eight countries in the Arctic territory including Norway.
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Most of my photography projects have been in the Arctic, sub-Arctic, and Nordic regions.
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China is major investor in Arctic nations generally as well as in Arctic specific activity.
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If Europe feels like the Arctic right now, the Arctic itself is balmy by comparison.
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People in the Arctic have hardly anything to do with what's happening in the Arctic.
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But one thing is clear: What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.
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Following the Las Vegas-like adage of "What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic," both of these dynamics may be changing weather patterns far outside the Arctic.
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"Russia's future lies in the Arctic," says Malte Humpert, a senior fellow at the Arctic Institute.
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Rather, these cold blasts are just displacing Arctic air that often stays put over the Arctic.
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And according to the Arctic Report Card, the Arctic did grow greener between 1982 and 2017.
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Obama publicly recognized the dramatic state of the Arctic when he visited the Arctic last summer.
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Arctic ice Warming temperatures seem to be affecting the thickest and oldest ice in the Arctic.
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Forgoing leasing in the Arctic Ocean would not "signal retreat," as the Arctic Energy Center claims.
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"They see themselves as a near-Arctic state and as an Arctic stakeholder, and they want to make sure they're not blocked from the Arctic by the coastal states," Conley said.
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As many are fond of saying, "What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic."
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The Arctic is warming twice as quickly as the global average, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification.
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Because of this, many scientists have hypothesized that a warming Arctic will lead to a cloudier Arctic.
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As a Canadian, I have never been to our Arctic, because, well, it's the fucking Arctic, with all the frozen and desolate loneliness the Arctic evokes when you're born and raised in Ottawa.
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"The report card continues to document a rapid unraveling of the Arctic," said Rafe Pomerance, chairman of Arctic 21, a network of organizations focused on educating policymakers and others on Arctic climate change.
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Unusually hot weather has also cooked the Arctic, contributing to wildfires in Greenland north of the Arctic circle.
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The Arctic Oscillation, or AO, is a pattern of air pressure differences between the Arctic and the midlatitudes.
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While in Finland, the group stayed at the Arctic TreeHouse, a unique hotel located inside the Arctic Circle.
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This then raises the question: who exactly should be funding the development of the Arctic and Arctic Infrastructure.
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Riitta and her husband Steffan designed the Arctic Cocooning experience to help visitors feel one with Arctic nature.
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Their mission, MOSAiC (short for Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate), is an unprecedented year-long endeavor to drift through the Arctic seas while investigating the harsh, largely inaccessible Arctic climate.
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Meanwhile, China, which is not a polar country, has launched aggressive Arctic diplomacy and gained non-voting observer status for itself at the Arctic Council, the international forum that addresses policy in the Arctic.
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Sea ice extent in the Arctic is near record low levels for June, numerous wildfires are being tracked in Siberia above the Arctic Circle, and new evidence suggests Arctic permafrost is melting faster than expected.
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This area, it so happens, is a band within Pluto's tropics that never experiences arctic winter or arctic summer.
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Arctic drilling ban Obama's action: Last week Obama indefinitely banned drilling in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
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In 85033, the Arctic Council was established as the preeminent intergovernmental forum for issues related to the Arctic region.
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Ken Bower: I found out about Bluie East Two through my research about the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
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Go deeper: A warming Arctic may have global consequences Arctic blast to spread across U.S. in record cold snap
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The Arctic Council, for more than two decades, served as the official forum for discussion among the Arctic States.
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One NASA study had planes fly over the Arctic for three years, measuring greenhouse gases over many Arctic ecosystems.
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ARCTIC ICE CONTINUES SHRINKING: The Arctic Ocean experienced its lowest maximum level of sea ice on record this year.
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For the most part, the Arctic Five have asserted their intent to settle any disputes arising from contested claims through peaceful means, the operating principle behind the formation in 1996 of the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental organization for states with territory above the Arctic Circle (including the Arctic Five, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden).
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There is some evidence connecting such "warm Arctic, cold continents" weather pattern to increased air and sea surface temperatures in the Arctic, which some researchers argue is having downstream effects far away from the Arctic Circle.
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Many other Arctic and sub-Arctic regions in Russia, Alaska and northwest Canada were at least 3°C above average.
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I had come to the Arctic to find what most threatens the Arctic and discovered that the threat is me.
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And they are asserting themselves into international debates over Arctic governance, most recently by calling themselves a "near-Arctic" state.
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Geographically, China is nowhere near the Arctic Circle, which puts the Asian powerhouse at a major political disadvantage compared to eight countries that make up the Arctic Council, all of whom have territory inside the Arctic Circle.
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Vehicle tracks from seismic exploration arctic national wildlife refuge boundary Vehicle tracks from seismic exploration arctic national wildlife refuge boundary Vehicle tracks from seismic exploration arctic national wildlife refuge boundary Vehicle tracks from seismic exploration arctic national wildlife refuge boundary Vehicle tracks from seismic exploration arctic national wildlife refuge boundary Vehicle tracks from seismic exploration arctic national wildlife refuge boundary By The New York Times | Photo by Matt Nolan Matt Nolan, who runs a mapping business in Alaska using aerial photography, was flying a small plane to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the northeastern part of the state last month when he noticed a pattern on the tundra.
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And Arctic climate change is happening more than twice as fast as climate change in the rest of the world, thanks to a process known as Arctic amplification, which refers to positive feedbacks in the Arctic climate system.
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Arctic basically just stars one explorer, played by Mads Mikkelsen, as he tries to survive in the Arctic after a crash.
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"The Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance," Pompeo said in Finland at a meeting of the Arctic Council.
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The Arctic Council refers to an intergovernmental forum which aims to promote co-operation, co-ordination and interaction among Arctic states.
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You can get tickets to the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center in Maine, or Rhode Island's Beavertail Lighthouse Museum.
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The loss of sea ice is bad news for Arctic species like polar bears, walrus and narwhal, and for Arctic people.
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After all, what happens in the Arctic has always affected the entire world; so it is true, the Arctic is Paris.
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Arctic sea ice has hit record lows throughout 2016 as the Arctic region has experienced extraordinarily mild conditions compared to average.
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In late 2016, he withdrew most other potential Arctic Ocean lease areas — about 98 percent of the Arctic outer continental shelf.
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These changes are shrinking the Arctic ice cap, allowing increased Arctic commercial development, and impacting existing commercial and military operations. Sen.
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However, we must do more to ensure our own Arctic security by preventing an imprudent rush to exploit Arctic offshore resources.
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The distribution of resources in the Arctic is uneven, as are political attitudes toward development of the Arctic and legal frameworks.
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Russia, in particular, has warned it cannot close some existing wells in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions without risking irreversible damage.
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What country, which hopes to dominate the Arctic, has built dozens of military sites along its Arctic coast in recent years?
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The Arctic had long been considered a zone of peace and cooperation between Russia and the West, through the Arctic Council.
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Despite U.S.-Russia tensions over the last few years, the eight Arctic nations — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States — have cooperated in the Arctic Council, the intergovernmental forum that addresses Arctic issues, finding common interests in protecting the environment, promoting sustainable development, and ensuring better living conditions for the people of the Arctic.
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But the opening of the Arctic Refuge is just one of several of the Trump administration's alarming efforts to exploit the Arctic.
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China has declared itself a "near-Arctic state" and aims to create a "polar silk road" to Europe through the Arctic Ocean.
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This year, we've also seen a heat wave in the Arctic and the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in 1,500 years.
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"We've seen a year in 2016 in the Arctic like we've never seen before," said Jeremy Mathis of NOAA's Arctic research program.
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The Finnish chairman's accompanying 9-page statement describes the majority of Arctic countries' concern for climate change's impacts in the Arctic region.
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The materials, like the 1869 Hayes and Bradford Arctic Expedition iceberg photographs at NYPL, portray the Arctic as a place of power.
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Especially considering the president's energy plans, which rely heavily on extracting fossil fuels from Arctic landscapes like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Arctic is an emerging market to which other Arctic nations are turning their attention, and their extensive competitive advantages and capabilities.
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Arctic sea ice hit the second-lowest level on record, which continues the long-term trend toward a seasonally ice-free Arctic.
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The Arctic: The findings of the only test well ever drilled in Alaska's Arctic refuge have been closely guarded for three decades.
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This year, zones of high pressure below the Arctic kept the cooler Arctic air, and the infamous polar vortex, locked in place.
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While the impacts of Arctic warming are many, melting Arctic sea ice does not raise sea levels, so this reference was omitted.
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Arctic sea ice hit the second-lowest level on record, which continues the long-term trend toward a seasonally ice-free Arctic.
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The Arctic observed its lowest-ever maximum sea ice coverage in March, the month Arctic sea ice is traditionally at its largest.
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They are also members of the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental body through which Arctic nations collaborate on environmental protection and sustainable development.
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That deployment also saw B-2s fly into the Arctic, performing "an extended duration sortie over the Arctic Circle" in early September.
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The melting of the Arctic ice cap and the accelerated exploitation of Arctic resources are lending this area ever greater strategic significance.
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A markedly warmer Arctic means more dark, sunlight-absorbing ocean surface, which in turn warms the Arctic further, and on and on.
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One of the more well-known such tipping points is Arctic sea ice, which could disappear in the summer in just 15 years, according to the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme's Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic report.
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What they're saying: "While the 2016 Arctic strategy highlighted the collaborative nature of the region, the U.S. now sees the Arctic 'in an era of strategic competition,'" Malte Humpert, the founder and senior scholar at The Arctic Institute, tells Axios.
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As a result, China has positioned itself as a "near-Arctic" country and is spending billions— mostly on a fleet of Arctic icebreakers—to claim a place in the region despite having no territory within 153,000 miles of the Arctic Circle.
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Billed as the "Arctic: Territory of Dialogue" International Arctic Forum, it was first established in 2010 and is used as a major platform for the expert and political communities to hold discussions on the pressing issues in the Arctic region.
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Mostly this is because the Russians bottled out after the most comprehensive joint analysis, the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA), was published in 2007 as a project of the Arctic Council, a forum for all eight Arctic countries.
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Only a few Arctic transits are made each year, mostly on the Russian side of the Arctic Ocean where there is less ice.
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But across the Arctic and sub-Arctic, we don't have a very clear picture of how much permafrost is vulnerable, when, or where.
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" "Look, at the Arctic Council is not simply about the environment, the Arctic Council's about all kinds of things, meteorological cooperation, scientific cooperation.
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Massive Arctic cruise ships are threatening Inuit hunting grounds Massive Arctic cruise ships are threatening Inuit hunting grounds This segment originally aired Oct.
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It took five flights to reach the Arctic Watch Wilderness Lodge on Canada's Somerset Island, roughly 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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"Many other Arctic and sub-Arctic regions in Russia, Alaska and northwest Canada were at least 3 (degrees Celsius) above average," he added.
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JIM EAGLESEditorPukorokoro Miranda Naturalists' Trust NewsAuckland What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic, as you recognise ("Polar bare", April 22017th).
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Or China could start pushing for a restructuring of the Arctic Council in ways that give non-Arctic states a more prominent role.
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Obama had pulled much of the Arctic off the auction block following a troubled offshore Arctic exploration program pursued by Royal Dutch Shell.
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In response, the pro-drilling Arctic Energy Center conducted a survey of 511 Alaskans that found 76 percent supported drilling in Arctic waters.
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He is also vice chairman of Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat – a nonprofit entity dedicated to protecting the interests of Arctic Slope Iñupiat.
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"What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic," said Joyce Msuya, U.N. Environment Programme's acting executive director, in a statement.
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"Both fire and Arctic greening are having pan-Arctic and continental scale impacts we're already beginning to observe," Miller told the media briefing.
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What they're saying: Arctic scholars see the voyage as symbolic, but not an indication that an Arctic shipping boom is upon us yet.
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"What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic," said Joyce Msuya, U.N. Environment Programme's acting executive director, in a statement.
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"Arctic Amplification" —-> temperatures in the #Arctic are warming more than twice as fast as the global mean temperature For more info: https://t.
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"Obama did try to have a more cooperative approach with Russia in the Arctic," a former U.S. official involved in Arctic policy said.
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"What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic," read a sign that Alexandria Villasenor, a teen climate activist from Davis, Calif.
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"Carbon stores are greatest in places like the Arctic and the sub-Arctic, where the soil is cold and often frozen," Crowther added.
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The Arctic heat wave — though most wouldn't consider temperatures in the mid 30s to low 20183s Fahrenheit to be "hot," this the Arctic in the dead of winter — has its roots in a weather system that pumped mild and unusually moist air into the Arctic from the Atlantic, while another storm system did the same from the Pacific side of the Arctic.
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The big picture: Studies show that what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic, and rapid Arctic warming may paradoxically be leading to more frequent cold weather outbreaks in Europe, Asia and North America, particularly later in the winter.
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So says a report "Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA), produced under the auspices of the Arctic Council, a scientific-policy club for the eight countries with territory in the Arctic Circle, as well as observers including China and India.
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Some scientists have hypothesized that the increased prevalence of unusually mild Arctic winters combined with colder than average midlatitude winters, known as a "warm Arctic, cold continents" pattern, is tied to global warming and the loss of sea ice in the Arctic.
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Some areas in the western Arctic, like Teshekpuk Lake, are every bit as vital biologically as the coastal plain is in the Arctic Refuge.
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The US's Arctic research stations, mostly located in Alaska and Greenland, also don't appear to be in danger as Arctic ice consistently melts away.
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With time-saving Arctic shipping routes also opening up, the Pentagon warned on May 2 of the risk of Chinese submarines in the Arctic.
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Nations are increasingly interested in the Arctic region and its resources, and for federal politicians in Ottawa, Arctic sovereignty is currently top-of-mind.
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Referring to increased competition in the Arctic region, foreign minister Thordarson said it was important that the Arctic remain a "peaceful, low tension area".
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"The tusk is used by narwhal to hunt Arctic cod," Brandon Laforest, senior specialist of Arctic species and ecosystems at WWF-Canada told Gizmodo.
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The satellite data shows greater warming in the Arctic, particularly across the data-sparse Arctic Ocean, suggesting GISTEMP may be underestimating global warming there.
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Composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi took a trip to the Arctic for a very unique purpose: He performed a concert for the melting Arctic.
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Instead, his actions represent the administration's continued failure to acknowledge the people of the Arctic who once put much faith in his Arctic strategies.
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The Swiss Alps had more plastic particles than the Arctic, likely due to the region's proximity to densely populated areas compared to the Arctic.
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They see China's attempt to change the governance narrative in the Arctic as a challenge to Arctic state control of their territories and EEZs.
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"The collective results reported in the 2018 Arctic Report Card show that the effects of persistent Arctic warming continue to mount," the report noted.
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He says modern-day global warming may lead to forests migrating towards to the North Pole, in places like Arctic Siberia and Arctic Canada.
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Protecting 125 million acres of the Arctic Ocean from oil and gas development is a fitting capstone to President Obama's already remarkable Arctic legacy.
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"We need to be talking about the North Slope overall, and the Arctic overall - the Arctic Refuge, the NPR-A and the Arctic Ocean – because the Trump administration wants to open it all," said Nicole Whittington-Evans, Alaska regional director of The Wilderness Society.
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In past years, these masses of Arctic ice had mostly stayed put in their proper ocean — the Arctic — but increasing temperatures caused ice to melt, unclogging the channels connecting the Arctic to the north Atlantic, thus allowing massive surges of ice to flow freely south.
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Earlier this month, NOAA released its annual "Arctic Report Card," and while scientists didn't say the Arctic failed 2016, they didn't not say that, either.
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The reason warming matters for black guillemots is simple: They eat Arctic cod, and Arctic cod like cold waters, particularly those covered by sea ice.
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Serreze pointed to a pattern of air pressure known as the Arctic Oscillation as a major driver of January's Arctic warmth and low sea ice.
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For all the reassuring language of China's official statements on the Arctic, it is possible that its calculations may change as its Arctic investments grow.
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The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, causing changes to cascade throughout the eight Arctic nations and beyond.
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It is also increasingly active in the Arctic and Antarctic, and has stressed its right to share in Arctic resources and conduct scientific research there.
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Here's what is happening: Arctic: The Coast Guard is moving forward with voluntary polar training requirements for crew members on ships operating in the arctic.
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A vicious cycle The rapid warming of the Arctic is known as "Arctic amplification," which is due to multiple feedback loops that the report describes.
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Obama took drilling in the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans off the table until 2628, and blocked drilling indefinitely in select Arctic and Atlantic areas.
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"What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic," Joyce Msuya, acting executive director of the United Nations Environment, said in a statement.
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The European Arctic was unusually warm during May, with 5 temperature stations setting new records for the month, including the Norwegian Arctic destination of Svalbard.
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"We're entering a new age of strategic engagement in the Arctic, complete with new threats to Arctic interests and its real estate," Mr. Pompeo said.
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China, despite being a non-Arctic state, is increasingly active in the polar region and became an observer member of the Arctic Council in 2013.
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In fact, the correlation with severe winter weather was stronger with the Arctic warmth parameters used in the study than with the traditional Arctic Oscillation.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)&aposa annual Arctic Report Card, which describes how the Arctic has changed each year, came out this week.
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This year has been record warm across the Arctic, and has seen several unseasonably powerful storms swirl across the Arctic Ocean, churning the sea ice.
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"The Arctic is going through the most unprecedented transition in human history," Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA's Arctic research program, said at a press conference.
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Ilan Manouach, page from "Shapereader: Arctic Circle" (2016)Arctic Circle, a 57-page graphic novel, is the first narrative work designed with the Shapereader system.
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"The Paris agreement will not save the Arctic as it is today," says Lars-Otto Reiersen, executive secretary of the group behind the latest edition of "Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA), a report produced under the auspices of the Arctic Council, a scientific-policy club for the eight countries with territory in the Arctic Circle), as well as observers including China and India.
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For the first time since the Arctic Council was established in 1996, the ministerial meeting of the eight Arctic states ended without an official joint declaration.
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The two met during the Arctic Council ministerial in Finland, where the US secretary of state warned of Russian aggression and expansionism in the Arctic region.
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The paper referred to China as "a near-Arctic nation" (never mind that its most northerly settlement is no closer to the Arctic than Berlin is).
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The bill also gives a boost to oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic wilderness area with a provision to open a portion of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Arctic regions are losing land ice, and losses from Greenland and Arctic glaciers are "a big contributor to sea level rise globally", Isaksen said by phone.
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Increased Arctic ocean plankton blooms, as the retreat of sea ice allows sunlight to reach the ocean and encourages more marine plant growth across the Arctic.
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But governments need to make a more serious effort to assist Arctic communities with safe and clean waste disposal, which is often lacking in the Arctic.
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China's ambitions have even reached the Arctic, with plans to build a "Polar Silk Road" with infrastructure projects and shipping routes between the Arctic and Asia.
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From 6900-July 2628, Chinese investment in Arctic specific projects topped $28503 billion, for comparison, the size of the entire Arctic economy is around $22019 billion.
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As former U.S. generals and national security officials clamor for increased Arctic presence – including responsible energy development – this administration has pursued a path of Arctic withdrawal.
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In the Arctic, the Old Ice Is Disappearing | In the winter of 2018, the Arctic Ocean hit a record low for ice older than five years.
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Alaska's main artery to the Arctic, the 414-mile-long Dalton Highway, is being threatened by rapidly thawing "landslides," according to a report from Arctic Now.
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Regardless of what was happening in the Antarctic sea, melting in the Arctic affected wildlife, coastal erosion and solar radiation absorption in the Arctic, she pointed out.
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Fram Strait, Arctic Circle (CNN)It's spring in the Arctic, and nature in the far north is just waking up, warmed by 24 daily hours of sunlight.
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SEATTLE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Arctic housing specialist Jack Hébert likes to paraphrase a saying from the Inupiaq, a Native Alaskan group living north of the Arctic Circle.
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Why it matters: The Arctic has long been a region where the eight Arctic nations have collaborated on governance challenges as well as environmental and scientific concerns.
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"The persistence of these anomalous temperatures in the Arctic is unusual," said Zack Labe, a graduate student studying Arctic climate at the University of California at Irvine.
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This warming effect of climate change makes wildfires in the Arctic more likely, Smith said, as the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet.
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The report's warning: "The collective results reported in the 2018 Arctic Report Card show that the effects of persistent Arctic warming continue to mount," the report noted.
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Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat (VOAI) is a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization established to provide direct input from the Inupiat people in matters of Arctic policy.
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Another concern in the Arctic is the possibility of release of methane from the Arctic tundra if temperatures warm enough, which would further enhance the greenhouse effect.
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A new study by CNA on Unconstrained Foreign Investment in the Arctic demonstrates that foreign direct investment in the Arctic is ramping up at a brisk pace.
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It said it would do so "jointly with Arctic States, while respecting traditions and cultures of the Arctic residents including the indigenous peoples and conserving natural environment".
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Russia, with the longest Arctic coast, ostentatiously staked a claim to vast stretches of the Arctic seabed by planting a flag beneath the North Pole in 2007.
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As the Arctic warms, there's a weaker temperature difference between the tropics and the Arctic, potentially allowing the jet stream to experience these bigger swings and wobbles.
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"They went very far in promoting the Paris climate agreement and encouraging the Arctic countries to join in the efforts," said Aleksi Harkonen, Finland's senior Arctic official.
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"What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic," said climate scientist Peter Kalmus, author of Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution.
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The Obama-Trudeau summit offers the chance to transform the climate change dialogue, and, as two key Arctic nations, the Arctic must be central to those discussions.
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Shearer is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Climate Forum, and former chair of the Arctic Council's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP).
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"China is attempting to gain a role in the Arctic in ways that may undermine international rules and norms," warned the Pentagon's Arctic strategy, published in June.
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Arctic sea ice coverage was 5.3 percent below the 1981–2010 average, tying with 2014 as the eighth-smallest January Arctic sea ice coverage in 85033 years.
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Audun Rikardsen, a professor of Arctic and marine biology at the Norwegian Arctic University in Tromsø, agrees, telling Norway's VG that the Russian Navy is likely connected.
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There is debate within the scientific community about whether Arctic warming is influencing weather patterns well beyond the Arctic, such as across the eastern U.S. and in Europe.
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Russia is the most Arctic of countries, controlling 2000 percent of the land area above the Arctic Circle and home to three-quarters of the polar region's population.
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Arctic river icings are massive, ranging anywhere from 6 miles in area to more than 32 feet thick and are defining features of many rivers in the Arctic.
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The Fairbanks Declaration was adopted at the meeting by the members of the Arctic Council, which includes countries with territory in the Arctic such as the United States.
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Zukunft warned that Russia was militarizing the Arctic and accused Moscow of "saber-rattling" by conducting unannounced military drills in the Arctic area involving thousands of troops. Adm.
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Defending entry into the North Atlantic from the Arctic is critical to allied security and we must also defend Alaska where the Pacific and Arctic Oceans come together.
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"There's a heatwave in the Arctic region, and certainly that makes fires burn longer and larger," said Zicheng Yu, a paleoecologist at Lehigh University who studies Arctic peat.
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The recently established Arctic Coast Guard Forum has brought all eight Arctic states closer together to address their shared challenge in search and rescue operations in the region.
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I pray that President Obama continues to speak up in support of the Arctic, and specifically the Arctic Refuge, so we can protect it once, and for all.
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Yesterday the environmental group Oceana authored a piece in these pages which attacked the Arctic Energy Center and Arctic Coalition as fronts for the oil and gas industry.
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Sea ice levels in both the Arctic and Antarctica are currently at record lows, while temperatures over the Arctic Ocean are currently 20 degrees Celsius hotter than usual.
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Russia's Arctic arms program is perhaps the most ambitious, and includes new nuclear-powered icebreakers and the cold-weather 80th Motor Rifle Arctic Brigade, which formed in 2015.
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Alaska is divided among Left Coast, Far West and First Nation, a vast region of Arctic and sub-Arctic North America where indigenous peoples remained in effective control.
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Arctic and near-Arctic soils contain as much or more carbon, in the form of dead vegetation that has accumulated for centuries, than is currently in the atmosphere.
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An interactive experience transports visitors to the Arctic to promote conservation efforts An interactive experience transports visitors to the Arctic to promote conservation efforts America is changing fast!
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Nonetheless, the Arctic Energy Center would have us believe that companies want to buy leases and that having companies in the Arctic Ocean is good for national security.
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Russia, the nation with the largest Arctic frontier, has expanded its military forces in the Arctic and has also made significant investments in northern gas and oil infrastructure.
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As the 2019 Arctic Report Card shows, the more the Arctic thaws, the more carbon it unleashes, and the less time we have to avoid runaway global warming.
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Read: Arctic heating up at twice as fast as rest of globe "Rarely have we seen the Arctic show a clearer, stronger or more pronounced signal of persistent warming and its cascading effects on the environment than this year," Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA's Arctic Research Program, said in a statement.
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Since Greenland is one of the most strategically important pieces of real estate in the race for Arctic influence, it is — by extension — a strategic imperative for the U.S. The U.S. is an Arctic Nation and the Arctic now is a competitive region; it soon will be a contested domain.
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"Not only are we seeing a one-two punch of arctic air, we will see a third punch of arctic air," said Haley Brink, a meteorologist with CNN Weather.
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Even if the Paris agreement is implemented in full, the Arctic will warm by between 21970ºC and 2125ºC above the 2200-2100 average over the Arctic ocean in winter.
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The thickness of ice in the central Arctic ocean declined by 13% between 21 and 24; record lows in the maximum extent of Arctic sea ice occurred in March.
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The thickness of ice in the central Arctic ocean declined by 65% between 1975 and 2012; record lows in the maximum extent of Arctic sea ice occurred in March.
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Sea ice in the Arctic is continuing to disappear: in December 2017, for instance, the extent of Arctic sea ice was the second smallest since records began in 1979.
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Arctic Ice Is On Track to Reach its Lowest Level in HistoryIt's been a hot year in the Arctic, with sea ice melting earlier and faster than ever before.
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China's interest in the Arctic is not much different than Sir Franklin's: an Arctic route that cuts the distance between China and Europe by as much as 40 percent.
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Arctic sea ice, as a result, set a record for the lowest February extent on record -- making another record low Arctic sea ice minimum a real possibility this summer.
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Kaleschke, who has been watching the recent melting with "great interest," noted that the waters in the Pacific Arctic and parts of the inner Arctic are warmer than average.
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These symmetrical, bone-like features surely aren't legs, but they do serve an important purpose for the marine mammals, which naturally reside in frigid Arctic and sub-Arctic waters.
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The decision all but bans Arctic drilling for that time period, since oil companies have let almost all of their leases in the Arctic expire or have surrendered them.
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The oil industry and its allies have pushed Obama to keep Arctic drilling on the table and let market forces decide if drilling should happen in the Arctic seas.
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The outgoing administration recently reversed a plan to open the Arctic Ocean to increased oil and gas leasing; other countries are also revisiting their development plans in the Arctic.
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For good measure, the Obama administration also removed the planned Arctic lease sales in the existing 5-Year Plan and eliminated future Arctic lease sales in the new Plan.
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A disaster in the Arctic would threaten whales, walruses and one fifth of the world's polar bear population, not to mention Arctic communities already under threat from climate change.
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And some Arctic countries like Russia, despite their huge investment in Arctic energy and military installations, are courting disaster because of their lack of sound environmental planning and policy.
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At the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum of the Arctic states now chaired by Finland, the U.S. and Russia cooperate on initiatives related to environmental protection and sustainable development.
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In Alaska, 31 villages face "imminent threat of destruction" from erosion and flooding, according to the Arctic Institute, a nonprofit group in Washington that studies issues affecting the Arctic.
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Russia is arguably the most active Arctic state, with a fleet of more than 40 icebreakers, and it is reluctant to allow non-Arctic countries to develop the region.
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The ledge above my desk is home to spirit animals (keeping in mind that selecting an arctic fox as one's spirit animal does not make one an arctic fox).
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In early May, the American secretary, speaking at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland, praised the changes caused by the melting of ice in the Arctic Circle.
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Conservationists Face Once-Remote Prospect in Arctic Drilling Fight: Defeat A measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration is in the tax bill before Congress.
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Within the Arctic Council, which comprises Arctic states such as the United States, Canada and Russia, France is limited to an observer status that leaves little room for maneuver.
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Will Arctic and near-Arctic regions continue to take more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through plant activity than they release, or will they release more than they store?
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Denmark has made it a priority to maintain the Arctic as an area of international cooperation and resolve any potential issues through political negotiations between countries with Arctic territory.
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At the Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in May, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioned China's claim of being a "near-Arctic state," stating Washington's unhappiness with Beijing's position.
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I believe they are also the best messengers to spread word of how climate change affects our lives in the Arctic and its effects on Arctic animals and nature.
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Some scientists suggest that global warming has reduced Arctic sea ice, and that reduction can weaken the polar vortex, thereby creating more opportunities for Arctic air to head south.
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Before that, he'll also visit Finland on Monday, where he's giving his speech laying out the administration's Arctic policy and joining the Arctic Council's regular meeting of foreign ministers.
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He was there to attend the Arctic Council, a body set up by the eight countries around the Arctic Ocean to resolve differences and disputes relating to the polar region.
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"There is a new Arctic now because the Arctic Ocean is now navigable" at times in the summer, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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The Arctic region as a whole is warming faster than the rest of the world, and we're seeing the consequences of climate change throughout the Arctic Circle, not just Greenland.
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The mission, better known as the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate, or Mosaic, is one of the largest climate-change research expeditions to the central Arctic.
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"There are economic opportunities similar to Greenland across the Arctic," said Heather A. Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
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Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a joint statement in March committing themselves to protecting the Arctic, effectively putting a hold on U.S. aspirations for offshore Arctic projects.
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Go deeper: Climate change is opening a new era in Arctic shipping The Arctic is unraveling as climate change intensifies Alaska is feeling the effects of the Arctic's changing climate
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Chinese cargo ships already make summer crossings of the Arctic, mostly along the Russian coast, and the country is likely to dominate Arctic sea routes as they open up further.
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That move would have blocked drilling in the Arctic for years to come, angering the drilling industry, which has long desired to tap massive stores of oil underneath Arctic waters.
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The bureau finalized the "Arctic Ocean Drilling Safety" rule in 2016 after years in development following Shell's 85033 disastrous oil explorations in the Arctic and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
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" Byers says the surprising resignation of former fisheries minister Hunter Tootoo, who was the lone representative of Arctic constituents in cabinet, "resulted in a lack of focus on Arctic issues.
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Photo Credit: Courtesy of Arctic Startups Photo Credit: Courtesy of Arctic Startups The center of the conference is not the speakers on stage as at so many, but relationship building.
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China has also established a presence in policy forums such as the Arctic Council, through research initiatives such as the Northern Lights Institute and the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center.
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Photos from space also show how Antarctic and Arctic glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates: The extent of Arctic sea is currently the second smallest it has been since 1979.
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Sea ice is rapidly diminishing, leading to rising sea-levels, leaving majestic wildlife like polar bears and arctic foxes stranded and starving, and threatening the survival of coastal Arctic communities.
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This part of the Arctic slope extending northward from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean is a critical site for polar bears to make their dens and give birth.
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"The coastal environment that Freese portrays ranges from the High Arctic, at 76 degrees north, to the tropical, at 24 degrees north," Winchester writes in East Coast: Arctic to Tropic.
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This is one reason scientists are so worried about a melting Arctic: When the bacteria turn the carbon in the Arctic into C2000 and methane, it accelerates a feedback loop.
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But even in the Russian Arctic most of the focus is on ports, said Mikhail Grigoriev, an Arctic shipping expert who is the director of Gecon, a Russian consulting firm.
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A warmer Arctic is hastening the loss of spring snow cover and sea ice, turning surfaces that reflect sunlight into sunlight absorbers, rendering the Arctic and the planet increasingly warmer.
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ARCTIC DRILLING IN THE TAX BILL: A tax cut compromise reached Wednesday by GOP negotiators contains a plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Sen.
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Arctic ice melting matters because, as Brad Plumer wrote for Vox, Right next door to all that Arctic sea ice is the massive ice sheet sitting atop land in Greenland.
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For starters, we'll need to reduce domestic and foreign barriers by lifting self-imposed restrictions on oil and gas development in the US Arctic, reach a deal with Canada on our disputed maritime boundary in the resource-rich Beaufort Sea and create sustainable economic growth strategies with Arctic and non-Arctic states.
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There's evidence that the incessantly warming Arctic — the fastest-warming place on Earth — has led to a weaker and less stable polar vortex, which means more outbreaks of freezing Arctic air.
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Back in June, as part of an advocacy campaign aimed at protecting the Arctic Ocean from oil and gas extraction, Greenpeace sent its ship Arctic Sunrise northward with some unusual cargo.
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For April of 2017, the story is dominated by unusual warmth in parts of the Arctic, including across Siberia, parts of China, Alaska and the northwest portions of the Arctic Ocean.
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"A well-respected company like Maersk sending a container ship through the Arctic, definitely signals there's something there," Malte Humpert, a senior fellow at U.S.-based think-tank Arctic Institute, said.
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While this is still a contested area of climate science, the saying that "what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic" is now part of the climate change lexicon.
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NEW ARCTIC DRILLING OFF THE TABLE: President Obama is expected to roll out in the coming days an offshore drilling plan that takes the Arctic Ocean off the table through 2022.
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So far, hundreds of above-ground fires have been recorded by satellites, covering hundreds of thousands of hectares in the Arctic and sub-Arctic, from Eastern Siberia to Alaska and Greenland.
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TRUMP MOVING TOWARD ARCTIC DRILLING: The Trump administration rolled out a long-awaited proposal Thursday that could open up oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic as early as next summer.
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Lawmakers on Thursday fought over the possibility of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the opening act of a legislative push to allow oil production in the Alaskan Arctic.
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We're entering a new age of strategic engagement in the Arctic, complete with new threats to the Arctic and its real estate, and to all of our interests in that region.
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The report said Arctic multi-year sea ice is at its lowest level since records began and the Arctic Ocean could be ice free in the summer as soon as 2050.
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Development of a network of specially managed areas, which WWF works toward in all Arctic nations, is fundamental to safeguarding the survival of Arctic ecosystems for people and wildlife to enjoy.
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During a negative phase of the AO, the polar vortex over the Arctic is weaker, resulting in a slackening of the upper level winds ringing the Arctic from west-to-east.
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The US, NATO, and Arctic countries are concerned "that Russia is being more aggressive on the security front in the Arctic," and China has sought a larger role in the region.
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The record-low levels of ice also led to another Arctic first: For the first time ever, a ship was able to navigate the Arctic Ocean north of Russia during wintertime.
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Over the summer, a Maersk vessel loaded with Russian fish became the first container vessel to complete an Arctic sea route that Moscow is planning as part of an Arctic superhighway.
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Warming is occurring about twice as fast in the Arctic as elsewhere, and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been declining by about 13 percent per decade since the 1980s.
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It's also destabilizing the jet stream, the loop created when cold air from the Arctic sinks down to the equator, where it warms up and moves back north to the Arctic.
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Goldman's press release cited environmental reasons for not supporting Arctic drilling but the firm has also made statements suggesting that Arctic drilling is too complex and expensive to make economic sense.
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The administration has also pushed to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, as well as waters offshore along the East and Pacific coasts, and the Arctic.
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The administration has also pushed to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, as well as waters offshore along the East and Pacific coasts, and the Arctic.
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Gazprom Neft operates two Arctic oilfields - Prirazlomnoye and Novoportovskoye.
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This is the Arctic 100 years ago vs Today. . . .
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We also participated in "Arctic Guardian," an Arctic Coast Guard Forum-led search and rescue exercise off of Iceland alongside the seven other Arctic nations, we conducted maritime security patrols for the United Nations General Assembly, and we seized 22019,000 pounds of cocaine and heroin worth over $650 million, bringing smugglers to face U.S. justice.
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Climate change is forcing an unprecedented transition on the Arctic region; as air and sea temperatures warm at record-breaking speeds, the Arctic has lost 95% of its oldest documented sea ice.
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These are the conclusions of a new, comprehensive assessment of the Arctic climate by a division of the Arctic Council — a cooperative, governing body that helps oversee development in the Far North.
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Commercial fishing in the high seas of the Arctic is already banned under an agreement signed in 2018 by the eight Arctic states plus China, Japan, South Korea and the European Union.
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Arctic sea ice hit its lowest annual maximum on record as of March 24, after one of the most unusually mild winters that many Arctic residents and longtime observers have ever seen.
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"At the Ministerial Meeting, representatives from the eight Arctic States will discuss issues of mutual interest and review the accomplishments of the U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship," the department said in a statement.
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The Trump administration approved a company's plan Wednesday to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, the first time oil would be produced from federal waters in the Arctic.
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As a Vuntut Gwitchin woman from the Yukon Territory in Canada, which abuts Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I was thrilled to hear President Obama call for the protection of the Arctic.
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ARCTIC DRILLERS GET NEW RULES: The Obama administration rolled out a suite of new rules Thursday aimed at improving the safety of offshore oil and natural gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
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"Because of the fact that the Arctic is not a priority for the Trump government, this has allowed China to take the steering wheel and accelerate their own Arctic policies," Lanteigne said.
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The report called on the government to provide greater funding for Arctic research and set targets to protect Arctic biodiversity as well as setting a timeline to reduce the country's plastic pollution.
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Military Drills in Arctic Aim to Counter Russia, but the First Mission Is to Battle the Cold: Moscow is moving to claim Arctic territory as barriers between Russia and North America melt.
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"So we must do everything we can do to prevent this," said Vauraste, who is also vice-chair of the Arctic Economic Council, a regional forum for business cooperation between Arctic nations.
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ARCTIC AND SUB-ARCTIC Onshore and shallow offshore wells in Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are relatively straightforward to close, but shutting in wells in other countries will be more difficult.
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The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of Earth A new study published in Science Advances reports the Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last decade alone.
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Tillerson signed the Fairbanks Declaration in Fairbanks, Alask,a at a meeting of the Arctic Council, a forum made up of indigenous groups and eight countries with territory bordering the Arctic Circle.
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They are also a potential accelerant of the Arctic sea ice's rapid melt, since soot from forest fires that far north can be transported northeastward and deposited on sea ice in the Arctic.
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The warming being experienced all over the globe has been particularly accelerated in the arctic region, leading Mashable's own Mark Kaufman to point out that the arctic we once knew is, essentially, gone.
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From the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship, 11 campaigners launched inflatable boats carrying banners opposing Statoil's Songa Enabler oil rig, 275 km (170 miles) north of the Norwegian coast, in the Arctic Barents sea.
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This NASA technology could help measure Arctic ice melt more precisely than ever before This NASA technology could help measure Arctic ice melt more precisely than ever before This segment originally aired Jan.
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Canada's senior Arctic official, Alison LeClaire, called that a "legitimate state activity" and noted that Russia's Arctic military presence is still far below the level of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Einaudi played his "Elegy for the Arctic" — composed for a Greenpeace effort to help raise awareness about climate change's harmful effects on the region — while floating on a platform in the Arctic Ocean.
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Meanwhile, a sailboat that set out to bring awareness and attention to the melting ice and warming Arctic has nearly made it all the way through a daring circumnavigation of the entire Arctic.
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"The aim behind the creation of the brigade was to defend the interests and security of the Russian State in the Arctic," says Colonel Ilia Pavlovsky, Commander of 80th Motor Rifle Arctic Brigade.
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How much China stands to gain can be reflected in the zeal with which it has pursued membership in the Arctic Council (and thus potential to be an architect of the new Arctic).
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It's likely that few, if any, of either president's advisors, let alone commentators, are looking to the Arctic — yes, the Arctic — as a starting point for common ground and improving relations going forward.
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This includes work on the increase in Arctic marine shipping and the pollution and accident risks associated with it, and a decision to hold an Arctic climate science meeting at the White House.
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For over 20 years Arctic states have attempted to compartmentalize Arctic cooperation on scientific research, environmental protection, fisheries management and search and rescue protocols — avoiding hard-power competition in military security and trade.
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The Arctic is already home to some of the world's largest mining operations, but regional development of infrastructure — roads, railways and ports to carry the resources out of the Arctic face funding challenges.
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However, incorporating development standards into financing mechanisms, such as the creation of an Arctic Development Bank, allowing nations to pursue their sovereign rights to exploit their resources and develop much needed Arctic infrastructure.
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In the event of a shipwreck, a heavy fuel oil spill has been identified as the top threat to Arctic marine life and to Arctic residents who depend on this sea for food.
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The phenomenon is known as "Arctic greening," and with it comes a galaxy of strange and surprising knock-on effects with implications both for the Arctic landscape and the world's climate at large.
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Governments of nations around the Arctic Ocean, including the United States, have been working on rules for managing potential future fish stocks in the central Arctic Ocean as the ice shrinks and thins.
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While politicians like to use the future of the Arctic as a political hot potato, the truth is that the Arctic can and should be a key component of America's comprehensive energy plan.
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a ban on new oil and gas drilling federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, while Canada instituted a similar ban in its Arctic waters.
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Jeremy Mathis, who directs the Arctic Research Program for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the warmth had led to a later than usual "freeze-up" of ice in the Arctic Ocean.
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At 69° N, Tromsø is well into the Arctic Circle.
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Chrysaora Melanaster jellyfish are commonly found in the Arctic Ocean.
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Russia and China aren't Arctic enemy No. 1 -- we are.
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Lake Okeechobee, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, or South China Sea?
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Another is spinning out of the Arctic and over Eurasia.
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Putin was speaking at an Arctic forum in northern Russia.
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The melting Arctic has become this decade's Amazon deforestation crisis.
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They're also burning throughout the Arctic Circle, particularly in Siberia.
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We risk losing all summer Arctic sea ice by 2030.
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Somehow, they successfully trek to a shelter in Arctic Circle.
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Color selections include orchid gray, arctic silver, and midnight black.
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That heat in turn helped fuel wildfires in the Arctic.
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Quinhagak's experience is emblematic of the Arctic region, he said.
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It was the first hint that the Arctic is deceiving.
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How many charging stations are there above the Arctic Circle?
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This is changing what wildlife looks like in the Arctic.
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Their partnership lasted through eight Arctic expeditions over 22 years.
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Things in the Arctic are just getting weirder and weirder.
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We see the Amazonian forests burning and the arctic melting.
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We see the Amazonian forests burning and the Arctic melting.
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This business model is unfeasible in the sparsely populated Arctic.
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They're simply an objective account of the modern Arctic reality.
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The MSI Trident 21080 Arctic is a gaming console killer.
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Surface temperature departures from average in the Arctic during 215.
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Pilots in the Arctic Circle now describe the same thing.
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Why is Antarctica warming so slowly compared with the Arctic?
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It even is exacerbating the warming trend in the Arctic.
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Like, I'm fairly confident that I'll never visit the Arctic.
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In other words, the Arctic is melting, fast and early.
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The Arctic absorbs even more heat and melts even faster.
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Overall, unusually warm Arctic temperatures are no longer a surprise.
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That's good, but if you're still drilling in the Arctic?
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Russia has offered to sell Arctic gas to Saudi Arabia.
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Drilling would be allowed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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"The Arctic is behaving very oddly this winter," Serreze said.
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The Canadian Arctic is also seeing a rapid ice expansion.
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A map of Russian Arctic military installations, produced by Sen.
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"In my lifetime, it's a totally different Arctic," Healey said.
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This is part of Putin's plan to dominate the Arctic.
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STUDIES: For Vladimir Putin, the Arctic is a prestige project.
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Anyway, there are monsters everywhere, even in the Canadian arctic.
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Arctic sea ice age at the end of March 2017.
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Half the summer sea ice in the Arctic has vanished.
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We should get used to these Arctic records, emphasized Mathis.
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The Arctic had its warmest year on record in 2016.
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Some new facility to counter Russian expansion in the Arctic.
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Amplified warming trends are now conspicuous all over the Arctic.
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" The World Meteorological Organization recently called the Arctic wildfires "unprecedented.
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Global warming impacts the Arctic more severely than other areas.
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Putin has long dreamed of reaping profits from Arctic oil.
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So who wins and who loses from a melting Arctic?
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You are going to feel the impacts of Arctic change.
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But such opportunities also extend far beyond Arctic shipping lanes.
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"What starts in the Arctic isn't confined there," Mote noted.
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Snow samples from the Arctic showed 14,400 particles per liter.
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The ship will be conducting arctic expedition cruises into 2020.
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BRUIE has already been tested in Alaska and the Arctic.
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By that standard, the Arctic is an obvious focal point.
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In the Arctic, the fear is the release of methane.
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Finally, the infrastructure in the U.S. Arctic is woefully inadequate.
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Still, solutions must involve ordinary people outside the Arctic, too.
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How much harder could it be in the high Arctic?
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Arctic sea ice loss doesn't contribute to sea level rise.
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Greenland has access to the Arctic, but it needs infrastructure.
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Homepage for Arctic Deeply, one of News Deeply's newer sites.
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The Arctic is becoming a much more heavily armed place.
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It's a 60 habitant strong Norwegian village in the Arctic.
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We've got the oil sands and a rapidly warming Arctic.
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The fjord is 250 km north of the Arctic Circle.
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Furthermore, he said, voters overwhelmingly oppose Arctic and Atlantic drilling.
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An earlier version of this article described arctic char incorrectly.
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They were in the Canadian Arctic, not the Canadian Pacific.
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Nowhere is this more evident than in the Arctic Ocean.
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Arctic premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2018.
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And arctic permafrost is already thawing because of warmer temperatures.
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Climate change is seriously affecting Alaska and the Arctic region.
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The microplastics are also showing up in Arctic sea ice.
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On average, Arctic sea ice extent is shrinking every summer.
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A Gwich'in community, Arctic Village, is just outside the refuge.
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"I absolutely fell in love with the Arctic," she said.
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A brutal arctic blast in the Midwest triggered the phenomenon.
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Mosaic is the most ambitious Arctic science expedition ever attempted.
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Opposite, a bespectacled man reads a study of Arctic peoples.
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It would rise by about twice that in the Arctic.
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These photos illustrate the arctic blast currently gripping the South.
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The company exports Novy Port from the Arctic Gates terminal.
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China has in recent years invested heavily in Arctic research.
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But Arctic people were hardly alone in feeling the heat.
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On an arctic Monday in January, I'd rather sing along.
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Arctic sea ice is now receding at an alarming rate.
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And evidence that the Arctic is warming fast is overwhelming.
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"We are altering the soundscape of the Arctic," Stafford says.
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It's arctic: You have to get through so many icebergs.
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In other Arctic countries, you'll contend with bears and wolves.
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Can the Arctic be completely devastated by the oil industry?
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Could we grit our teeth and enjoy the Arctic activities?
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Despite its icy reputation, the Arctic isn't a lifeless place.
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Wildfires consumed vast parts of the Amazon and Arctic alike.
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The typically frozen Arctic is melting at an alarming rate.
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My Subaru didn't just take me up to the Arctic.
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Do they wonder: Why is the arctic shrew feeding again?
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By then, most of Alaska's arctic was open to drilling.
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Murkowski knows drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is unpopular.
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As the planet has heated, Arctic sea ice has declined.
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Arctic ground squirrels hibernate farther north than any other animal.
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David Muir then covered the arctic blast and IG report.
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Some regions, like the Arctic, could see fish populations increase.
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This is a problem for our majestic arctic sea dwellers.
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Republican President Dwight Eisenhower established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Nowhere on Earth is changing as quickly as the Arctic.
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We can't let Trump succeed in his reckless Arctic ambitions.
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Such is the case with Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Arctic is one of the planet's most pristine places.
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Chicago will be as cold as the Arctic on Wednesday.
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Unsurprisingly, however, this is also Arctic Monkeys' most divisive album.
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The Arctic refuge is one of our most majestic places.
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Arctic warming is thawing permafrost and melting sea ice, causing damage to infrastructure but also opening up new oil reserves, shipping routes and access to fisheries - intensifying a decades-long race for Arctic resources.
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In 2015, just 0.1 percent of U.S. federal offshore crude production came from the Arctic and Department of Interior analysis shows that, at current oil prices, significant production in the Arctic will not occur.
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Perhaps the most critical test of our partnerships will come from pursuing a positive and cooperative relationship with Russia and China in the Arctic, ensuring they remain responsible members of the international Arctic community.
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Meeting the Paris targets would help slow the pace and reduce the severity of Arctic warming, but it "would not stabilize the loss of Arctic glaciers, ice sheets, and ice caps," the report states.
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Arctic Monkeys "Four Out of Five (live on The Tonight Show)" The latest Arctic Monkeys album, out today, is worth a listen, but don't expect it to sound like the stuff they've done before.
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Temperatures in the Arctic were the second-highest ever recorded, and Arctic sea ice levels reached a new low in the winter of 2017, falling some 1.2 million square miles short of past winters.
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The main concern of Arctic countries is that China's ambitions will result in a gradual rewiring of the region's politics in ways that give China more influence in determining how the Arctic is managed.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo focused his council statements at the edge of the Arctic Circle not on climate change, but security — which is not a typical concern for the consensus-based Arctic Council.
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One Chinese Arctic expert, who asked not to be identified because she is not authorized to speak to the press, emphasized that China is working through established international agencies to expand its Arctic presence.
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But, despite the fact that more than 67 billion tons of nitrogen are stored in the Arctic permafrost, nearly all of the research on the impacts in the Arctic have focused on carbon releases.
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Compete in the new Arctic international economic order If we expect to be the leader of other nations, then we can expect to compete aggressively in the emerging ice-free Arctic international economic order.
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It was all part of a training exercise by Russia's newly formed 80th Motor Rifle Arctic Brigade, which was established two years ago as part of the Kremlin's bid for dominance in the Arctic.
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The Center's Arctic report comes one day after the World Meteorological Organization released a report about historic levels of extreme weather events — including Arctic temperatures — that began last year and have continued into 2017.
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"There are short, fragile links between fish stocks plummeting, seals starving, whales disappearing, and human life in the Arctic," Becca Robbins Gisclair, senior director of Arctic programs at the Ocean Conservancy, told Business Insider.
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Europe, South America, and the Arctic were particular hot spots, with the Arctic recording its second smallest sea ice extent on record for the month, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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As an international organization made up of eight Arctic countries and representatives of indigenous groups in the region, its stated mission is cooperation on Arctic issues, particularly the protection of the region's fragile environment.
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The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, with the average extent of Arctic sea ice reaching a new low this April, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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"This ministerial is convening as the Arctic is unraveling at an accelerating rate," said Rafe Pomerance, a former State Department official in the Clinton administration and the chairman of Arctic 21, an advocacy group.
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"It's kind of up to the Arctic governments to decide what to do," said Fran Ulmer, the chairwoman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, which advises the government on research needs in the region.
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Pomerance is chair of Arctic 21, a network of NGO scientists and advocates on Arctic climate issues, and is also a member of the Polar Research Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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Others suggest these weather phenomena could be influenced by climate change due to the ongoing decreases in Arctic sea ice and the faster rate of temperature increase in the arctic compared to lower latitudes.
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The University of Alaska's Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration, one of six federal drone research centers, is testing aircraft in arctic conditions, and flying unmanned craft hundreds of miles out over Arctic waters.
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While Russia, the United States and three other countries with Arctic coastline control the exclusive economic zones near their shores, overfishing in the international waters at the central Arctic Ocean could collapse fish stocks.
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"We've seen a year in 2016 in the Arctic like we've never seen before," Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA's Arctic Research Program, told journalists at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco.
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"I think we should expect to see more frequent heat waves in the Arctic, particularly in the winter, due to less sea ice allowing the storms to more easily track into the Arctic," said Meier.
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This year's report card contains a supplementary report focusing on the extremes observed in the Arctic during the past few months, with record high temperatures across parts of the Arctic preventing sea ice from reforming.
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The so-called Arctic Report Card showed a few new "records" this year: the minimum extent of Arctic sea ice from mid-October to late November was the lowest since satellite observations began in 1979.
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Starting in boreal forest, passing through Arctic tundra and ending on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, the road will be elevated above the permafrost, separated by a layer of quarried rock and protective fabric.
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Brooks range, where Alaska's tallest Arctic peaks are (Image: US Fish and Wild Life Service)A debate over the tallest peak in the Alaskan arctic has finally been settled after almost six decades of fighting.
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The Northern Sea Route is a shipping route running along the Russian Arctic coast, while the Northwest Passage refers to a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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With projections for Arctic ice cover showing a nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean within the next few decades, it's likely that the Northabout will be joined in its route by many larger, more polluting, vessels.
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One NASA analysis looked at 37 years of monthly sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic, and found that there hasn't been a record-high in the Arctic sea ice any month since 1986.
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The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and the people living along the Mackenzie River's fishing camps and villages on the way to the Arctic Ocean feel the heat.
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In the name of climate change initiatives President Obama has, over the course of his presidency, marginalized the voices of the Arctic Iñupiat while destroying our ability to develop a stable economy in Arctic Alaska.
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A 2017 U.S. study observed that Russia's Arctic infrastructure is at risk form global warning and that, within a generation, buildings in the Arctic will be at risk of sinking into the ground and collapsing.
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A few weeks later, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a promising announcement: all Arctic waters would be "indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing," subject to review every five years.
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Much of this untapped fossil fuel largess was said to lie beneath the Arctic waters adjoining Alaska (that is, the United States), Canada, Greenland (controlled by Denmark), Norway, and Russia — the so-called Arctic Five.
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When the unpopular tax bill passed, the Trump administration and its allies defended the equally unpopular Arctic drilling provision by claiming that opening the Arctic Refuge to leasing would generate billions for the U.S. treasury.
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The arctic air centered over the Northeast and New England states is pushing temperatures way below average, while another arctic front will enter the Northern Plains Friday and spread south and east over the weekend.
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Specifically, the department anticipates "increased need for air, sea and land capabilities and capacity in the Arctic region," and "damage from thawing permafrost and sea ice in Alaska and the Arctic region," Mr. Osial wrote.
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"Skaluba also pointed to a recent speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting of the Arctic Council, in which Pompeo said the Arctic had "become an arena of global power and competition.
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Arctic Chill Super Cooling Gel Fiber Fill Mattress Topper On the opposite end of the spectrum, this Arctic Chill Mattress Topper is filled with hypoallergenic down alternative gel fiber, keeping you cool all night long.
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They have already canceled multiple scheduled Arctic lease sales, withdrawn key areas like the Atlantic from future leasing and put in place restrictive new regulations that have further discouraged private investment in our Arctic areas.
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In addition to unforgettable views of aurora borealis, Arctic Bath puts an emphasis on its wellness amenities, which include three different saunas, a hot tub, and, fittingly, a cold arctic bath as the hotel's centerpiece.
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The questions for the leaders of the United States and Canada must become: How can we slow, and stabilize the warming of the Arctic, while also considering the need to adapt to the new Arctic?
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"It really is another indication of the changed Arctic, an Arctic that is covered by more seasonal ice -- ice that melts away every summer, thinner ice cover and a more mobile ice cover," Meier said.
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At the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco today, NOAA released its 2019 "Arctic Report Card," an annual status update on the changes unfolding up north as the Arctic warms at breakneck speed.
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One way to do this would be to have more observational data, especially from regions that are more likely to contribute to future sea level increases, such as Alaska, Arctic Canada and the Russian Arctic.
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"The warming of the Arctic has really been exceptional," he said.
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Arctic Cat shares skyrocketed over 40 percent to $18.48 a share.
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The same thing, or course, is happening all over the Arctic.
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Conflict is brewing in the melting Arctic, but so is opportunity.
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You probably don't imagine them biding their time in the Arctic.
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In the Arctic, the bear — there's nothing that can hurt it.
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That's one reason customers might be wary of the Arctic Apple.
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For President Obama, the Arctic has been an obvious passion point.
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I'm like, 'You don't need a fitting, you need arctic boots.'
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This is what it means when half the Arctic is melting.
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Wow... truly a remarkable event ongoing right now in the #Arctic.
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A "dynamic view" of the two recent extreme #Arctic #SeaIce events.
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Earlier this year, we saw a heat wave in the Arctic.
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Instead, they lobby to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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You're in the middle of the freezing, windy, snow-battered Arctic.
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Opening up the Arctic to oil exploration remains on the table.
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One day it's a tropical jungle, the next an arctic tundra.
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The Navy hasn't limited its sailors' Arctic eduction to US ships.
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Warmer temperatures are also causing sub-Arctic species to move north.
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Given how quickly Arctic ice is melting, this is hardly surprising.
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Two in the Arctic may speed it up quite a lot.
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I'm an #actuallivingscientist studying how Arctic kelp respond to enivronmntl stressors.
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The Arctic route is well suited to this kind of shipping.
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Their mission is to create an Arctic farm for the future.
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Im looking to build a knowledge base of Arctic food here.
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They will dip a toe or even swim in the Arctic.
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Woolly mammoths won't be trouncing through the Arctic tundra anytime soon.
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Many, such as Sonic Youth and Arctic Monkeys, would sell millions.
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Disappearing ice in the Arctic has already had some surprising effects.
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Image: Gifford MillerThe planet is warming and Arctic ice is melting.
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Oil and gas exploration in the U.S. Arctic has been limited.
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Map: temperatures across the Arctic compared with the 2015-2016 average.
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It included areas off both coasts and Arctic waters off Alaska.
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Norway already has oil and gas production from offshore Arctic fields.
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This year, like the Arctic, continues to be decidedly not chill.
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Go deeper: Rapid global warming is bringing unprecedented changes to Arctic
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Arctic sea level pressure and air temperature anomalies during January 21979.
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Mr Xi has been showing a growing interest in Arctic countries.
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Plenty of non-Arctic countries, including European ones, have similar dreams.
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Already Arctic countries are wary of the numbers that could involve.
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Across the Arctic, roads and buildings buckle along with the ground.
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Such ambitions hinge on a melting Arctic and rising global temperatures.
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Arctic air flowing south into the U.S. on January 270, 227.
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How did you come up with the idea for Arctic Fox?
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MORE instituted in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans because they're permanent.
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It's a brand new port, built from scratch in the Arctic.
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It's a brand new port, built from scratch in the Arctic.
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Now, the disappearance of Arctic sea ice is technically old news.
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Nothing will actually happen until Mary Berry triggers Arctic Roll 22016.
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Above average temperatures "plagued the Arctic all winter," the release said.
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"This is a true wilderness refuge," the Arctic park's website states.
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Undo President Obama's recent ban on Arctic and Atlantic offshore drilling.
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The Ising model, which explains magnetism, helped simulate Arctic melt ponds.
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China is also exploring and trading for Arctic oil and gas.
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"That was oldest, most stable ice in the Arctic," said Mathis.
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It's global sea ice area — meaning both the Arctic and Antarctic.
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So why aren't airships already a fixture in the Arctic sky?
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Temperature anomaly map for the Arctic in the fall of 22016.
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A hyperloop linking urban centres to remote Arctic communities is another.
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A smokier, increasingly fire-prone Arctic is a likely future, too.
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The Arctic has been warming up earlier because of climate change.
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Peculiar dark, floating "blobs" have been sighted in the Alaskan Arctic.
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An Arctic blast is sending the U.S. into a deep freeze.
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It's not just changing landscapes in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
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Warming waters are also melting Arctic and Antarctic glaciers from underneath.
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Arctic nations are gathering to define new rules for the region.
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It's causing wildfires and melting Arctic ice at an unprecedented rate.
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This is what it's like at the US's Arctic base there
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Safina filed several dispatches from the Arctic trip for National Geographic.
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That's more than double the Arctic fire emissions for July 2018.
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What that means for the Arctic ecosystem is not clear. Airborne.
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And the Arctic states are eager to keep it that way.
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Even the mountains in the Arctic make for gorgeous nature photography.
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The super size of Arctic climate change has a ready explanation.
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Bumblebees are the only bees that live in the high Arctic.
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In the Arctic, Titch finds his father and finally abandons Wash.
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The products' ingredients also include arctic moss, argan oil, and baobab.
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The reason Harvey and Jenner's glitzy arctic creatures look so similar?
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None of the men had ever set foot on Arctic ice.
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In June, unprecedented fires burned across the Arctic, breaking emissions records.
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America's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge must be protected for future generations.
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Both ships became trapped in pack ice in the Canadian Arctic.
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I keep seeing news outlets refer a blast of Arctic air.
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But in the case of ARCTIC CHINOOK, this rings especially true.
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A related dynamic is in play in the U.S. Arctic offshore.
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Can we make the Arctic someplace people would want to live?
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There aren't many cars out here in the desolate arctic landscape.
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Compared to the other Arctic nations, this figure is remarkably high.
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What does that mean for Russia's increased ambitions in the Arctic?
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"Racism looms like an iceberg in the Arctic Sea," he wrote.
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It falls between the Arctic breeds and the pre-contact dogs.
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With no arctic running experience, we wondered whether we had enough.
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Dr. Cohen likens the Arctic to the refrigerator in your kitchen.
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China is trying to pour money into nearly every Arctic country.
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Heat waves in the Arctic are having another knock-on effect.
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The Arctic itself is warming at twice the average global rate.
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"Probably the best analog for beavers in the Arctic are mankind."
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It's so hot, even parts of the Arctic are on fire.
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Among other things, it was the Arctic Monkeys that did it.
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But nowhere are the changes more dramatic than in the Arctic.
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The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
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The ice is melting in the high Arctic despite frigid temperatures.
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On Thursday, the debate over the Arctic refuge begins in earnest.
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Weather can range from the steamy tropics to sub-Arctic cold.
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Pajamas Shown: Bedhead Arctic Aristocrats Pajamas, $29.00 – $140.00 pre piece; Nordstrom.
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And in the colder seasons, the Arctic Ocean is downright balmy.
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But no place is feeling the heat quite like the Arctic.
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On the indie front, Bleecker Street opened "Arctic" in four locations.
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The best-known consequence of Arctic heating is rising sea levels.
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The scientists told us that the Arctic would warm especially fast.
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Even Canada and the United States have sparred over the Arctic.
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And an effort to wrangle the dialects of the Canadian Arctic.
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Find out more about Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort on the hotel's website.
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The court also said the risks of Arctic drilling were limited.
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America does not need more arctic drilling; it needs clean energy.
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"I'm still here," he said during a panel on Arctic security.
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They inhabit icy Arctic waters and can weigh over a ton.
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Still, it is America's most effective strategic tool in the Arctic.
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There is currently no crude oil production in the Canadian Arctic.
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