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United Kingdom: David Cameron may speak to Vladimir Putin directly over Arctic 30 arrests
2013-10-28 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron is prepared to consider contacting Vladimir Putin directly to raise the "very serious issue" of the six Britons who have been detained in Russia following a Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic last month. The prime minister told parliament he would personally speak to the Russian president if it would help the plight of the detainees, who learnt last week that the authorities had decided to downgrade their charges from piracy to hooliganism. One of the British...
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Can Oil Majors Conquer the Arctic?
2013-10-28 18:01:17| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Do you think you could make it out in the Arctic? Well Exxon Mobil Corporation and Chevron Corporation think they can, and plan on spending a combined $14 billion to do so.
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Uninett Engages Global Marine Systems for Arctic Circle Subsea Cable System Installation
2013-10-28 16:49:00| Offshore Technology
Uninett, a non-profit company delivering telecoms and data network connections to Norwegian universities and research institutions, has announced Global Marine Systems as the contracted provider of a new subsea cable that will service the research co
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Researchers Discover Arctic Warmer Than Anytime Last 44,000 Years
2013-10-25 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Good news for Arctic mosses, if not for any other Arctic creatures: little tundra plants that have been buried under the Canadian ice can feel the sunlight for the first time in at least 44,000 years. The implication is that the Arctic is now, and has been for the last 100 years, warmer than at any time in the last 44,000 years and perhaps for the last 120,000 years. Researchers have found that the Arctic is warmer now than it was in the early Holocene--the end of the last Ice Age--when the...
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Russia: In praise of the Arctic 30
2013-10-24 23:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The first claim from the Russian authorities back in September, when FSB agents boarded the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, was that it contained high explosives and that the activists were planning a terrorist attack. A week later, despite Vladimir Putin admitting it was obvious they weren't pirates, the 28 activists who were part of a protest at oil drilling in the Arctic, along with two journalist observers held with them, were denied bail by the court in Murmansk while investigations into piracy...
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