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Cold, hard facts how melting Arctic ice will open shipping opportunities
2013-05-23 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Changing Arctic Sea ice conditions will open new shipping routes through the North Polar region and enable extended summer navigability for current open-water routes by mid-century, most notably between the East Coast of the US and Asia. But a number
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Arctic Council Takes First Steps to Reflect Global Interests
2013-05-17 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The Arctic Council added China and five other countries as official observers yesterday, expanding the focus of the organization and underscoring the complicated politics created by newly open waters in the north because of climate change. The council -- which consists of eight Arctic countries -- granted observer status to India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore in addition to China. The group deferred a final decision about an observer application from the European Union, although...
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Research Into Carbon Storage in Arctic Tundra
2013-05-16 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon storage, they had made certain assumptions. "We expected that because of the long-term warming, we would have lost carbon stored in the soil to the atmosphere," said Schimel. The gradual warming, he explained, would accelerate decomposition on the upper layers of what would have previously been frozen...
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As climate change broils the Arctic, John Kerry apologizes
2013-05-16 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: "Hello, world? Hey, John Kerry here. Just wanted to apologize for all those decades of America`s non-leadership on that crazy global warming thing. But now we`ve decided to start making some nice sounds about the issue. Hope you can hear me making them over the din of the Arctic ice breaking up behind me." OK, so the Secretary of State didn`t actually say that. But the leader of the department that will rule on the climate-changing Keystone XL pipeline proposal has begun apologizing for the nation`s...
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The Need for Arctic Offshore Vessels is Increasing
2013-05-16 12:37:00| Ship Technology
Arctic offshore vessel NB 507 was named after Russian Navigator Aleksey Chirikov at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard 11 April 2013. The vessel will be delivered to the largest Russian shipping company Sovcomflot the next week and it will continue its path s
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