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Under Arctic Ice, Photographer Captures Climate Shifts In Earth's Most Rapidly Changing Place
2013-12-24 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: What does the future hold for the parts of the world that will be most affected by Earth's warming climate? This spring and summer, St. Louis-based photojournalist Randall Hyman spent four months getting a preview in Arctic Norway, a place he's visited again and again since the mid-1970s. What struck him most on this trip, a Fulbright Scholarship project between April and August, was a pace of change that "has really picked up in the last decade," Hyman said, since trips he made there in 2006...
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Arctic 30 activist granted amnesty
2013-12-24 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists detained in Russia since September should be home shortly after Christmas after authorities began on Tuesday to formally process their criminal amnesties and grant them exit visas. A Greenpeace spokesman said members of the group, who were arrested aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, were beginning to go through the administrative process clearing them of criminal charges, before being...
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Russia begins offshore drilling in Arctic
2013-12-23 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Greenpeace activists who scaled Russia`s first Arctic offshore oil rig during a September demonstration have been given amnesty, but Russia is extending no such courtesies to the Arctic environment or the climate. The rig that the Arctic 30 helped bring to the world`s attention has begun pumping oil. From Agence France-Presse: The landmark announcement marked the formal start of Russias long-planned effort to turn the vast oil and natural gas riches believed to be buried in the frozen...
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Gazprom begins oil production in offshore Arctic
2013-12-23 19:30:14| Green Car Congress
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World first: Russia begins pumping oil from Arctic seabed
2013-12-23 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Oil has begun to be pumped from the Arctic seabed, according to Russian oil giant, Gazprom. The company announced on Friday that it has begun exploiting oil reserves at the offshore field of Prirazlomnoye. The project, which is several years behind schedule, is hugely controversial and made international headlines in September after Russian military arrested 28 Greenpeace activists protesting the operation along with a British journalist and Russian videographer. "This is the first project in...
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