News tagged with arctic island
Skrei fever hits Norway as Arctic cod spawn
Grabbing a cod head, Alexander Leirvold expertly threads it onto a long spike on a wooden pole before cutting out the pearly-white tongue, considered a culinary delicacy.
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Greenpeace hijacks oil firms' Greenland talks
Greenpeace activists on Thursday diverted oil executives from a meeting on prospecting possibilities off Greenland and instead gave them a 20-minute environmental lecture, the group said.
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Greenpeace activists climb Greenland oil rig
(AP) -- Three Greenpeace activists on Sunday climbed up an oil rig off Greenland's coast in an attempt to stop a Scottish oil company from starting deepwater drilling in the arctic waters, the environmental ...
May 29, 2011 |
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US not ready for Arctic oil drilling, say officials
The United States is ill-equipped to deal with a major oil catastrophe in Alaska, the Coast Guard admiral who led the US response to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and others have warned.
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Decades of research show massive Arctic ice cap is shrinking
Close to 50 years of data show the Devon Island ice cap, one of the largest ice masses in the Canadian High Arctic, is thinning and shrinking.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2010 |
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In tiny 'Tuk,' they man climate's front line
(AP) -- Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline. They're building windmills.
Sep 07, 2009 |
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