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Arctic 30 Told They Are Not Free to Leave Russia
2013-12-13 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Russian authorities have told the Arctic 30 that they cannot leave the country, defying the ruling of an international court which ordered that they should be allowed to go home immediately. Russias powerful Investigative Committee has written to one of the 30--Anne Mie Jensen from Denmark--indicating that they are not free to leave the country. Lawyers for Greenpeace expect all of the non-Russian defendants to be treated in the same way by the authorities, meaning they would now be forced...
Arctic 30 told they cannot leave Russia
2013-12-13 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Russian authorities have told a group of Greenpeace activists and freelance journalists arrested after a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic that they cannot leave the country. The environmental group said the decision was in defiance of a ruling of an international court, and repeated its demand that the 28 activists and two journalists, including six Britons, should be allowed home. The so-called Arctic 30 were arrested in September after the Russian authorities boarded their vessel...
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Changes Continue in the Arctic Due to Climate Change: Report
2013-12-13 07:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: NOAA releases new Arctic Report Card for 2013 The conclusions of the latest Arctic Report Card, a document created every year by scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), indicate that, although values measuring the health of Arctic ices are closer to their long-term average, the North Pole is still struggling with the effects of global temperature increases. NOAA develops the Card annually alongside organizations such as NASA. The document covers a variety...
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In a Warming Arctic, Oil Drilling Brings Disaster
2013-12-12 11:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Shell Oil recently announced plans to resume drilling operations in the Arctic Ocean this summer. The company suffered a string of failures when it tried to drill there last year -- from having its emergency equipment "crushed like a beer can" in tests to grounding its drill rig in a winter storm. But these fiascoes haven't stopped Shell. The company is determined to gamble with pristine ocean waters once again. Yet even as the oil giant draws up drilling plans, the Arctic continues to feel the...
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In a Decade, Arctic Saw 40 Percent More Cyclones Than Previously Believed
2013-12-11 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In the decade between 2000 and 2010 about 1,900 cyclones churned through the Arctic, scientists report, noting that total to be about 40 percent more than previously believed. While it may be easy to jump to conclusions about global climate change playing a role in the increase, these high-latitude cyclones have increased largely because scientists have gotten better at detecting them, according to David Bromwich, a geography professor at The Ohio State University, who presented the research this...
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