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July 2010

- Court rejects moratorium on drilling in the Gulf
- At BP, a history of boldness and costly blunders
- Iconic Cold War radar towers may soon be history
- CRU climate scientists 'did not withhold data'
- Historic oil spill fails to produce gains for U.S. environmentalists
- Marine shippers pan Canada's tough new Arctic regulations
- Polar bear habitat to be costly, governor says
- New solar test zone brightens future of Las Vegas
- Magazine 'reveals the melt' with far-north swimsuit edition
- Solar plane lands safely after first flight at night
- Japan gives anti-whaling activist suspended for jail term
- Solar plane sets out on historic flight
- EPA: Clean-air rule would overturn Bush-era plan
- BP prepared quickly for Gulf spill lawsuits
- 52,000 comment on future on ANWR
- Russia may abandon Arctic drift stations
- Alaska's high-fat champ: Eskimo ice cream
- U.S. to provide nearly $2 billion for two solar energy plants
- Diomede airstrip melts, leaving residents stranded again
- Report: Oceans' deteriorating health near irreversible
- China to host new round of climate talks
- Moynihan, as Nixon aide, warned of global warming
- Conservationists protest Malaysia coal plant plan
- Eyewitness account: Mawson's Hut
- Norwegian-Tanzanian climate change agreement for forests reached
- China fears warming effects of consumer wants
- Dutch agency admits mistake in UN climate report
- New language research supports land bridge evidence
- All Gulf states have now been hit by oil

June 2010

- Global warming reportedly magnified in Arctic over eons
- Inuit circumpolar summit begins in Greenland
- High time for a tough Arctic treaty?
- Both U.S. heavy icebreakers broken down
- Smallest whale population identified
- Search for Franklin's lost ships to resume
- Environment, sovereignty focus of new Arctic maritime rules
- China's fourth Arctic expedition team departs from Xiamen
- Airport in Greenland ready for oil rush
- Whiter clouds could mean wetter land
- Floating nuclear power plant to be set afloat in Russia
- Rivals may join to develop gas pipeline from Alaska
- Oil is Greenland's 'most promising card,' premier tells ICC
- Canada to phase out coal-fired plants
- Oil tunnel for Lofoten projects
- Oslo aims to be electric car capital
- Finnish oil spill fighting capacity needs improvement
- Russia's Arctic region to auction seven oil and gas deposits
- Nunavut wants rights to resources
- Canada dealing with new Arctic rival: China
- Finland's forests work as massive carbon sink
- Russia, Canada seek joint Arctic space monitoring project
- Inuit circumpolar summit begins in Greenland
- Shark exports coming back to benefit eastern Greenland
- Peru inventor 'whitewashes' peaks to slow glacier melt
- Illegal bear paw sales thrive at Russia-China border
- Newspapers retract on 'Climategate,' but damage still done
- Polar bears get little help after being classified as endangered
- Norway sanctions cross-border oil project
- Bills, beaks and climate
- Offshore oil lessons from Norway
- Oil firm accused of improper waste disposal on North Slope
- BP magazine discovers the bright side of Gulf spill
- Conference to allow BP to hunt humpback whales
- Are climate skeptics lousy scientists?
- Endangered polar bears' future rests on thin ice
- BP allowed to help government investigate itself during past mishap
- Tracking climate change down to the bottom of salmon streams
- Icelander's campaign is a joke, until he's elected
- Oil spill legal battles could foul health research
- What scientists do during summer: Blog from Alaska
- BP pursues Beaufort Sea drilling that critics call risky
- Canada to require vessel registration in its Arctic waters
- Absence of sunspots a calm before the energy storm?
- Study predicts natural gas use will double
- University of Tromsø to hold researchers accountable
- Japan blames whaling foes for collapse of talks
- What is the appeal of that thar blubber?
- How corals could survive climate change
- BP is pursuing Alaska drilling some call risky
- Twilight time for Norwegian gas production?
- A green light for Greenland drilling
- No way to clean oil spill under Arctic ice, expert says
- Revisiting governance in a changing Arctic environment: An Alaskan case study
- Arctic security improvements recommended
- This year, it's Nanook of the really far North
- Nunavut ponders more competition in sealift
- Last lighthouse keeper in Iceland evicted
- Gazprom: Big deals ahead for shipbuilders
- Makivik gets $1 million for phones, infrastructure
- Melting permafrost threatens Canadian housing projects
- Iceland in talks with Russia about Arctic affairs
- Finland proposes Arctic Council summit
- Russia seeks to make Murmansk the 'Capital of the Arctic'
- Arctic Ocean cleanup to cost $40 million
- Series: The environmental danger of king crab
- Scientists call for new strategy in polar seas observation
- Tricky sea ice predictions call for scientists to open their data
- Denmark's largest wind farm gets green light
- EU states give 14 more years to dirty coal plants
- Climate trial balloon proves explosive
- Talks on whaling quotas heading for failure
- British geologists probe Arctic origins
- Yellow sub finds clues to Antarctic glacier's thaw
- Future of commercial whaling ban rests with Japan
- Proposed quota for whales too high, scientists say
- China coal mine explosion kills 46
- Prudhoe Bay plagued by safety issues, BP employees charge
- Firms appeal offshore oil drilling suspension
- Report urges Canada to work with U.S. on Arctic security
- Oil drilling in the Arctic: Facing a freeze
- Gulf spill could hurt migrating Arctic birds
- Understanding the effects of Arctic tundra fires
- Whaling deal seeks to end hunt ban
- Movie auditions begin for Barrow whale saga
- Jones Act: Politics strain Gulf oil cleanup
- Norway starts emergency oil response review
- Anadarko blames spill on BP recklessness
- Inlet council hears report on volcano-threatened oil tanks
- BP captures largest amount of leaking oil yet
- Norway workers, oil firms agree to wage deal, avoid strike
- A new North Sea oil field for Statoil
- Dalai Lama criticizes anti-whaling protesters
- Where Gulf spill might place on the roll of disasters
- Nations divided over lifting ban on whaling hunting
- With criminal charges, costs to BP for Gulf spill could soar
- Alaska protests proposed polar bear protection area
- Engineers say Interior changed oil report after they signed it
- Analysis: Russia's deepest interests are linked to the Arctic
- A very big wedding in a very small Arctic village
- Murky future seen for clean energy
- Scientists develop tech to track carbon dioxide
- EPA: Climate bill costs less than a postage stamp
- Japan may quit whaling commission if ban stays put
- Norway, sovereigns lose $5 billion on BP after Gulf oil spill
- Norway and U.K. cooperating on CO2 storage
- Russia, U.S. agree to polar bear subsistence quota
- BP cut corners on well despite numerous warnings
- Arctic bird poop loaded with environmental poisons
- Whale poop fights climate change, study indicates
- Mysterious mountains hidden beneath Antarctic ice revealed
- Thawing Arctic ice cellars worry coastal Alaska villagers
- More active sun means nasty solar storms ahead
- Study: Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages
- In Norway, the rise of the towering turbine
- BP's PR blunders mirror Exxon's, appear headed for record book
- Japanese prosecutors seek jail for anti-whaling man
- Disasters call attention to Coast Guard's aging rescue fleet
- Effort to limit greenhouse gas enforcement fails
- New estimate doubles rate of oil flowing into Gulf
- BP oil spill fears cause Norway to halt North Sea oil drilling
- Diary from polar science summit in Oslo
- White House fighting effort to reduce enforcement of greenhouse gas limits
- Warming sinks climate change sculpture project
- Damage from Gulf oil spill may last decades
- Norway PM succeeds UK's Brown in UN climate group
- Gulf spill draws scientists to study impact
- Russia dusts off plans to open Northeast Passage for sea trade with Asia
- Size of Exxon spill remains in dispute
- Study: Inuit students benefit from schooling in own language
- Analysis: Uneasy debate in Canada over Northwest Passage
- Lancaster Sound seismic tests worry Inuit
- Officials hope to improve safety of oil transports in Gulf of Finland
- LNG a key to cleaner shipping
- Minister calls for careful conduct in Norwegian-Russian waters
- 2010 on track to be warmest year ever
- Russia to launch rescue centers in Arctic
- Sovkomflot will ship oil to China via Arctic
- Finland's strategy for Arctic region drafted
- Russian Border Service investing in Arctic infrastructure
- Arctic Council must warm to others, Denmark says
- Abu Dhabi to build world's largest solar plant
- Japan fleet sets sail on Pacific whaling trip
- Earth's climate used to weigh chances of alien life
- Stop Gulf oil spill with nuclear blast? No way, U.S. says
- Australia bids to close Japan's whaling loophole
- Obama hopes oil spill boosts support for climate bill
- Liquor limits on tap in Kotzebue
- Pacific islands adapt to climate change
- China 'not very optimistic' about cutting emissions
- Climate change, immigration collide
- Judge rejects Alaska's rush to shoot wolves in wildlife refuge
- Coast Guard rescues missing Norton Bay whale hunters

May 2010

- Norway hopes to unlock climate cash to fight deforestation
- BP scraps 'top kill' attempt
- Alaska pipeline operator target of eight federal actions
- Scientists who favor ideology over fact
- Scientists build case for undersea plumes
- Australia to take Japan to court over whaling
- Shell to stay in Alaska despite drilling halt
- Arctic oil decision praised, panned
- BP resumes work to plug oil leak after facing setback
- Memorial Day remembrances and a feast in Anaktuvuk Pass
- Moving beyond the 'honey bucket' in Arctic villages
- BP accepts offer of help from Norway and Mexico to help contain Gulf oil spill
- Obama suspends Arctic oil drilling until at least 2011
- Prince Charles urges unity on rainforests
- Polar bears may disappear completely, study suggests
- Britons' fears turn to doubts about climate change
- Obama extends moratorium on oil drilling for six months
- Panel suggests signs of trouble before Gulf rig explosion
- Gulf spill now worst in U.S. history
- Wood-powered 'biomass' plants have critics barking
- U.S. climate envoy calls for transparency during China trip
- Operating an icebreaker in the Arctic
- Norway educates Arctic sailors
- Archaeologists scrambling as accelerated erosion sweeps away Arctic artifacts
- Canadian government sponsors healthy eating program for Arctic
- Norwegian reindeer in midst of annual trek
- Indigenous people of Russia battered by hardships
- Swedes agree Sami are a people
- Remapping Canada's Arctic
- Himalayan village builds artificial glaciers to survive global warming
- Ottawa confident Greenland set high standards for drilling
- Kirkenes fish farm makes a big catch in Russian markets
- Swedish biofuel use show large climate benefit in study
- Barents region sets bar for success in fishing
- Scientists call for more effort in tackling rising ocean acidity
- After oil, Norway should turn to natural gas, experts agree
- Indonesia, Norway to seal deal on forestry
- Oil spills into pump station containment area in Alaska
- 89 workers evacuated from Statoil platform in North Sea
- Mystery surrounds 26 headless chickens in North Pole
- Web site offers better on spill-related extinction of Gulf species
- Experts suggest BP took cheap, quick chances
- Despite Obama's moratorium, drilling projects move ahead
- Nome school board faces recall vote
- U.S. warns it may 'push BP aside' in Gulf oil clean-up
- Legal action threatened over Alaska's predator control in refuge
- Averting a North Sea oil disaster
- Agency issued warning letter to BP Alaska in April
- Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible
- Nunavut research vessel will sail next year
- Mammoth hemoglobin offers more clues to its Arctic evolution
- Russian research vessel back from Antarctica
- Canadian Arctic spill exercise won't use oil, coast guard says
- Research improves understanding of threats to Antarctic wildlife
- Arctic sea ice heading for new low
- Design contest provides glimpse of 'green' hotel room of the future
- Norway, U.S. may pledge up to $6 billion to fight deforestation
- Study: Ocean warmed significantly during past 16 years
- Gulf oil spill may be 19 times larger than originally thought
- Alaska authorities target contraband sent to Arctic by mail
- Statoil resoundingly rejects anti-oilsands resolution
- Three climate change reports: Set prices on carbon emissions
- Scientists fault lack of studies about gulf oil spill
- Arctic seismic tests could help Canada's marine park plans
- Russia launches satellite project to monitor the Arctic
- Norway to share oil and gas expertise with Bolivia
- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says green energy can drive nation's economy
- Marine base to house largest solar-powered residential community in U.S.
- Inside the 'other' doomsday seed vault in India
- Cambridge Bay still hopes to get scientific, economic benefits of Nunavut Arctic research center
- BP's secrecy keeping facts on gulf spill from public view
- U.S. doubts global emission targets in climate deal
- Earth records warmest April ever
- NASA scientist urges Norway to pull out of Albert's 'destructive' oilsands
- Alaska lawmakers united in support of Shell's Arctic drilling, despite spill
- Quest for oil leaves a trail of destruction across the globe
- Drilling critics warn of dangers of Arctic oil spill
- Norway pledges US$1b for carbon cut
- Gulf hopes science can turn desert into farmland to avoid food crisis
- Ocean fish may disappear in 40 years, UN says
- UN science chief defends work, welcomes review
- Climate change threatens to make lizards extinct
- U.S. Senate takes up climate bill modified by Gulf oil spill
- Climate change creating boom of allergy-causing plants
- Climate camp discusses warming in Alaska
- Norway raises 2010 crude oil price estimate by 11.8 percent
- UN report: Planet still losing too many species
- Existence of polar/grizzly bear species confirmed in Canada
- Death toll in Siberian mine disaster reaches 52
- Blast-hit Siberian mine had no insurance cover for equipment
- South Pole experiences its warmest year on record
- Russia coal mine blast kills 31, traps 59
- Russia's Medvedev creates commission, urges investigation in coal miner blasts
- Scientists decry 'assaults' on climate change research
- Rising seas from global warming threaten Taiwan
- Tromsø study: Taller men at greater risk of blood clots
- BP has history of blasts and oil spills
- Series of failures led to Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion
- Ship logs help scientists track oceans' warming
- China leads Asia's push into green technology
- Norway: BP oil spill can happen anywhere
- China's soaring energy use weakens pledge of efficiency
- 'Float coat' made to order in white for Arctic whalers
- Graham says climate bill cannot pass U.S. Senate
- Column: Why Norway's offshore oil drilling is safer
- New dog on the ice block part of move toward military co-operation
- A snowball effect heats the Arctic
- Isolated Arctic park unlikely tourist magnet
- Arctic ice sets nine-year mark
- Putin orders cleanup of Russian Arctic
- How woolly mammoths survived the cold
- Earth could become too hot for humans, study claims
- Adventurers nix plan to drive across Bering Strait
- Groups challenge EPA permits for Arctic drilling by Shell
- U.S. Forest Service seeks view on ANWR oil drilling; could it be locked up permanently?
- India to restrict coal mining in forests
- Germany: Climate meeting 'broke the ice'
- Barrow crews land two whales during weekend
- Polar bear patrols vital as ice recedes
- Antarctica was once a warm 'greenhouse' world
- Wind farm foes suffer legal setback

April 2010

- Arctic oil drilling faces tougher scrutiny
- Controversial prosecuter seeks to sue global warming scientist
- Polar bears take up rock climbing to get food due to thaw
- Gulf Coast oil spill could exceed Exxon Valdez
- Oil spill's blow to BP's image may eclipse its cost
- Shell to proceed with Arctic offshore plans despite spill
- Huge NASA science balloon crashes in Australian Outback
- Japan seeks arrest of anti-whaling ship chief
- Iceland has world's longest-lived men
- Germany, Mexico trying to push climate talks ahead
- Global floating ice in 'constant retreat,' study finds
- Report: Sea ice loss a major cause of warming in Arctic
- Councel recommends Kirkenes as base port for oil operations
- U.S. approves first offshore wind farm after decade-long fight
- Canadian Internet company rejects "obligation to serve" Arctic
- Ancient tools revealed by melting Arctic ice in Canada
- Building furturistic 'frozen cities' in the Arctic
- Arctic hunters learning to adapt to changing ice conditions
- Warmer Arctic creates nasty surprises for early birds
- Gulf oil spill could affect rules for Arctic
- Neste Oil to test 100 percent biofuel in Finland
- Canada tells energy firms to start powering down coal-fired plants
- Russian villiage loses faith in Arctic gas bonaza
- Iqaluit airport out of aviation gas
- Oil rig blast complicates push for energy and climate bill
- Melting Arctic ice could lead to species interbreeding
- Australia suspends emissions trading proposal
- West Mediterranean countries unite on climate change
- BP buys Total Norway's oil interests for $991 million
- Cape Cod project critical step for U.S. wind industry
- Rural Alaska fights for more lawmakers to represent them
- Deep ocean current near Antarctica may help global warming research
- Reindeer breeding technology proves successful
- Could cleaner air actually intensify global warming?
- New killer whale species proposed
- Research gap left airlines exposed to volcano's blast
- Report: Ocean acidification rising at unprecedented rate
- Like Sept. 11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue
- New whaling plan draws fire from all sides
- Bolivian president at climate summit: Eating chicken makes you gay
- Volcano brings out stereotypes in European countries
- Court rejects "jury of peers" arguement for Arctic village man
- Senator pulls critical clime bill support over immigration
- How airlines dodged the Aleutians ash of 2008
- Arctic subsistence hunters protest new requirement thay have duck stamps
- Climate bill gives polluter and nucler breaks
- Investigation reveals carbon-offset scams
- Greenpeace says no to U.S. energy bill
- Energy-efficient prototype homes to be tested in Arctic villages
- Hot spots for family dogsledding trips
- Alaska is go-to airline for volcano knowledge
- Two coal mines show how safety practices vary widely
- At 40, Earth Day is big business
- Iceland volcano unlikely to advance global cooling
- Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes
- Spring comes 10 days earlier in changed U.S. climate
- Ash cloud distrupts Norwegian, Icelandic fish exports
- Bolivia hosts 'people's' climate change event
- Volcano emitting up to 300,000 tons of CO2 daily, experts say
- 'Russian Arctic' national park will not open on schedule
- Dead whale had 'astonishing' amount of trash in its stomach
- Gambell whales make first strike on Easter
- Coal mine blast means new realities for lawmakers in U.S.
- Norway cuts Lofoten oil view, boosting greens
- Global temperatures hit 'hottest March on record'
- Volcanos halt helicopters to oil platforms in northern Norway
- Proposal seeks to phase out whaling by Norway, Iceland, Japan in a decade
- Review panel clears researchers in 'climategate' controversy
- Exxon Mobil to sell stake in Norway pipeline
- Canada's seal hunt to close early due to lack of sea ice
- Genetically engineered crops profit farmers
- Biotech crops are good for Earth, report finds
- Australia arrests Chinese crewman over reef ship
- New Zealand declares new whale sanctuary area
- Review panel clears researchers in 'climategate' controversy
- Exxon Mobil to sell stake in Norway pipeline
- Canada's seal hunt to close early due to lack of sea ice
- Genetically engineered crops profit farmers
- Biotech crops are good for Earth, report finds
- Australia arrests Chinese crewman over reef ship
- New Zealand declares new whale sanctuary area
- Polar explorer returns to Alaska with climate change message
- Climate bill would curb EPA
- China ship 'gouged two-mile scar' in Great Barrier Reef
- 7,500 due for alternative climate conference in Bolivia
- Europe finds clean energy in trash, but U.S. lags
- Connectivity may be a stabilizing force in wind power
- The climate path from Copenhagen through Cancun
- Barrow's spring festival kicks off whaling season
- Hunter 'delivers' unborn seal pup from carcass
- Study examines federal spending on climate change programs
- Solar-powered plane makes successful maiden flight
- Post-Copenhagen climate talks begin amid discord
- After W. Va. mine deaths, how much trouble is coal industry in?
- Norway and Germany to share renewable energy via giant power cable
- Building a green economy
- Court fight adds confusion to U.S. climate change effort
- Clean Water Act may be used to fight ocean acidification
- Norway's whale quota largest in 25 years
- Cows eating grass may reduce N2O emissions
- Nations meet to discuss next climate steps after Copenhagen disappointment
- Australia expresses anger about Shininess vessel's oil spill in Great Barrier Reef
- U.S. coal mine where 25 died cited for numerous recent safety violations
- Connecting mining disasters and climate change
- Studying the formation of the ocean floor to Antarctica
- Japan charges New Zealand whaling activist
- Growth in Arctic sea ice a fluke, researcher says
- Environmentalists scoff, GOP shrugs at Obama's drilling plan
- U.S. officials: Shipwrecks 'burping' oil are difficult to manage
- A race to reap energy from ocean breezes
- Thousands of quakes strike glaciers every day
- U.S. issues limits on greenhouse gas emissions from autos
- Judge threatens to appoint 'master' to fix Alaska's rural schools

March 2010

- Clinton's Arctic comments cheer Inuit
- Catlin Arctic survey: Strong winds, thin ice and polar bear prints
- Norway-Russia deal on Arctic border near, expert predicts
- Voice of Russia: Arctic prospects and developments
- Studying ice at -40F at the tip of North America
- Students from Arctic town venture to Antarctica
- Flights over Arctic measuring ozone hole depletion
- Who, or what, killed the last mammoths?
- Arctic animals doing better, but not close to the Pole
- Artist places sculptures on melting Arctic iceberg
- Russia to explore Arctic riches
- Reindeers' body clock switched off to deal with Arctic conditions
- Accelerating Arctic changes pose long-term risks for U.S. Navy
- Hunting party rescued from Arctic ice floe
- Pay $17,000 and you can run in the Antarctic Ice Marathon
- NASA finds shrimp dinner on ice beneath Antarctica
- South Korea picks site for second research base in Antarctica
- Polar bear washes up on Scotland's Isle of Mull
- Lights go out around the world for Earth Hour
- UN official doesn't expect climate deal until 2011
- NASA prepares 'global hawk' for takeoff
- Copenhagen Accord climate pledges too weak, UN says
- Norway acknowledges challenges from 'not yet stable' neighbor at Arctic summit
- Norway changes tax rules for carbon permit trading
- On global warming, scientists and TV weathercasters are at odds
- Open season on whales again?
- Polar bear, bluefin tuna trade bans rejected
- ABB wins major offshore order in Norway
- Visiting Norway's fields of black gold
- Norway to curb oil fund's investment risk
- GE expands wind power activity in Norway
- Ships to use cleaner fuels in U.S., Canada
- 'Cap and trade' loses standing as energy policy of choice
- Obama to open offshore areas to oil drilling for first time
- U.K. panel calls climate data valid, British panel finds
- Exxon Mobil to raise Norway spending in 2010 a output declines
- Climate bill backers court industry to pre-empt ad war
- EPA delays plants' pollution permits
- New light shed on North Pole ice trends
- Russia's nuclear industry seeks to profit from alternative fuels
- Large Hadron collider breaks energy record by 300 percent
- France backs down on carbon tax plan
- Landmarks, cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour
- North Pole-South Pole flights to test greenhouse gasses
- Riddle of the dead whales in Argentina
- Iditarod ends with no dog deaths
- Could Icelandic whale meat make its way into Danish pork?
- Santa Monica restaurant closes after serving whale meat
- Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice
- Mackey wins fourth straight Iditarod
- Global warming threatens ski resorts across western U.S.
- Questions about research slow climate change efforts
- Norway to limit oil fund spending to keep interest rates low, PM says
- Australia 0.7 degrees warmer during the past 50 years
- British government rebuked over global warming nursery rhyme advertising
- Review of UN panel's report on climate change won't reexamine errors
- Alyeska reports shortage of spill response vessels
- Tuna, polar bears on agenda at wildlife trade meet
- Tapping water and volcanos for energy in Alaska
- Trucking a bitter road and looking good on TV
- Wainwright troops train with biathlon
- Vegas casinos to go dark for Earth Hour
- Central American shrimp, lobster disappearing fast
- Series: Climate myths and questions
- U.S. forms working to lower the cost of solar energy
- Sarkozy calls for UN reform, blasts Copenhagen summit
- Meeting on deforestation boosts morale, budget
- Winter Games yield forecasting insight
- Report: Case for global warming stronger than ever
- Japanese coast guard arrests anti-whaling skipper
- Conoco proposes spending $13 billion on Norway fields
- Climate change and debris flow in southern Norway
- Climate change makes birds shrink in North America
- Scientists take another run at climate change
- Fewer in U.S. worry about global warming and believe it's real
- Fight splits backers of voter initiative to suspend California's global warming law
- Copenhagen climate goal supported by China, India
- Extremely rare all-black penguin discovered
- Hanging out with 'the most remote Americans'
- Outside science academies to review international warming panel
- China's environment worsening, could miss energy goals
- Better research about oil spills in Arctic sought
- U.S., Canada battle over Beaufort boundary
- Nunavut to balance budget, but fears future federal funding cuts
- Antarctica imminently falling apart?
- Canada's role in Arctic sovereignty
- The race to exploit the polar regions
- Catlin Arctic team braves thin ice and polar bears to monitor acid oceans
- Anti-whaling activists claim major victory in Antarctica
- Frostbite brings an end to North Pole expedition
- Iceberg breaks in Antarctica not where expected
- Antarctica's Blood Falls are an extremophile's paradise
- Greening of Oil launches Antarctica expedition blog
- Musk Oxen decline due to climate change
- Obama pushes senators for climate bill
- Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists
- Clues to Antarctic space blast
- Norway has been resilient to economic crisis, OECD reports
- Norwegian prime minister warns against organized climate change campaign
- Errors, thefts eroding confidence in climate science
- EPA piecing together framework for greenhouse gas rules
- Gore's climate groups unite as he sees 'massive' opposition
- Iditarod race to Nome begins
- Norway's oil wealth fund has best year ever in 2009
- Dozens of ships freed from Baltic ice
- Creationists seek to stop teaching of global warming
- 95 percent chance humans responsible for global warming, report says
- Methane frozen below Arctic seabed destabilizing, scientists warn
- Should the World Bank fund coal plants?
- Scientists taking steps to defend work on climate
- Flying from Pole to Pole
- Baby woolly mammal is a picture of prehistory
- ANWR drilling will kill U.S. climate bill, Lieberman says
- Iceberg the size of Luxemburg breaks off from Antarctica
- Nome begins e-waste 'backhaul' effort
- What should schools teach about global warming?
- China eyes perks of ice-free Arctic
- Norway OKs buying real estate with oil fund
- Scientists say 'ice arches' a concern in northeastern Canada
- Inhofe accused of turning climate row in 'McCarthite witch-hunt'

February 2010

- Russian 'bear patrol' offers advice
- Top U.N. climate official says he will resign
- Independent board to review work of top climate panel
- Australia tells Japan: Stop whaling or face court
- Senators to propose abandoning cap-and-trade
- Lawmakers tone down effort to overturn polar bear endangered listing
- EU chief urges 'rethink' on China, U.S. climate dealings
- Whalers, activists clash again in Antarctic waters
- Canada signals willingness to resolve northern border dispute
- Pox scare breaks out after basketball player visits Barrow
- Scant Arctic ice could mean 'double whammy' of summer melting
- Inuit group wants in on five-nation Arctic meeting
- Group from Siena headed to Antarctica
- Trying to go from D.C. to Antarctica by bus
- Australia, Antarctica linked by climate
- Texas challenges EPA ruling on greenhouse gas threat
- Seeds of discontent: The 'miracle' crop that failed to deliver
- Arctic Native leaders say they've been left out of summit
- Drilling ban to cost U.S. $2.36 trillion, industry study says
- Coal-state Democrats hit EPA on climate
- Scant Arctic ice could mean summer 'double-whammy'
- Green light on Canadian gas project could trigger red flags in future, some say
- Canadian reservists head north for Arctic exercises
- Get this: Warming planet can mean more snow
- Norway says no to genetically modified seeds
- Fjords contribute to melting of Greenland's glaciers
- Republicans mine coal country anxieties
- Climate science credibility at risk, some researchers say
- Obama rebukes climate skeptics
- Alaska village embraces Native dancers banned by church
- EPA plans to phase in regulation of emissions
- Panel proposes support for whaling in exchange for limits
- Bush schools wait years for upgrades, facilities
- Public losing faith in science
- Around the redwoods, the fog is dissipating
- Is the Copenhagen Accord already dead?
- Studying the athletic secrets of sled dogs
- Group petitions EPA to protect ice by cutting soot pollution
- Baltic the sea dog swamped in fan mail
- Australia's threat over Japan's whale hunting called 'unfortunate'
- Series of missteps by scientists threaten climate-change agenda
- World may not be warming, some scientists say
- U.N. must investigate warming 'bias,' says former climate chief
- Norway plans world's most powerful wind turbine
- Cities getting wired for electric cars
- Greenpeace pair pleads not guilty in whale meat trial
- Heating oil prices fuel villagers' call for help
- Greenpeace calls for fair trial in Japan whaling case
- U.S. climate skeptics seize on blizzard
- China seen as potential Alaska natural gas customer
- Suspected Crip sentenced for selling crack to Kotzebue
- Utah wants out of climate coalition
- Climate fight heating up in deep freeze
- Should it be legal to tame caribou?
- Arizona pulls out of western cap-and-trade program
- Senator, Greenpeace exchange barbs over EPA regulations
- Baltic Nord Stream gas pipeline safe, Putin says
- Statoil trims output growth goal due to weak gas market
- Unusual interests come together on climate bill
- Bill links Alaska hiring to oil tax reductions
- NOAA to establish climate center in Alaska
- Researcher on climate cleared in inquiry
- 55 countries submit emissions goals to U.N.
- Obama unveils plans for alternative fuels
- Panel suggests 100 ways buildings can be cleaner
- Halliburton, Aker may gain from Norway's push for oil spending
- Rising CO2 levels causing a tree growth spurt
- 'Storms' in space can disrupt transpolar flights
- Researcher on climate cleared in inquiry
- 55 countries submit emissions goals to U.N.
- Obama unveils plans for alternative fuels
- Panel suggests 100 ways buildings can be cleaner
- Halliburton, Aker may gain from Norway's push for oil spending
- Rising CO2 levels causing a tree growth spurt
- 'Storms' in space can disrupt transpolar flights
- Caribou killing trial begins in Point Hope
- Norway joins international energy grid
- China leading race to make energy clean
- Taiwan developing one of world's top seed shelters
- TransCanada defends gas pipeline project
- As sponsors fall away, Iditarod tightens its belt
- Do the rings of Herbie the elm have age, climate data?
- Brown says U.N. climate negotiations were flawed, need reform

January 2010

- Harsh winter a sign of disruptive climate change, report says
- Bin Laden blames U.S. for global warming
- Silicon Valley makes big push into solar and smart-grid technologies
- Train link from northern Norway to Beijing could speed up shipping
- Less water vapor slows Earth's warming trends, researchers say
- U.S. signs up for Copenhagen accord
- Conoco's Alaska profits drop, but production leads other units
- Atmospheric dry spell eases global warming
- Mexican president: Climate deal hinges on money
- TransCanada files open-season plan for proposed gas line
- Obama puts government on low-carbon diet
- Climate change to triple Australia's fire danger, report says
- New Zealand 'probes whaling crash'
- Egypt's fertile Nile Delta falls prey to climate change
- Gene-altered bugs make biodiesel
- In Portland, going green and growing vertical in a bid for energy savings
- Obama eager to help advance climate bill
- Was mysterious 'jellyfish' in Norway's Arctic skies caused by satellite reflecting Northern Lights?
- UN panel defends climate change evidence
- Greenpeace calls for moratorium on industrial activity in Arctic
- India's 'miracle' biofuel crop: Too good to be true?
- The future of coal power will require hard choices
- Kerry, Graham seek scaled-back climate plan in bid for support
- Glacial profiling: On thin ice?
- DOE optimistic about future of wind power in U.S.
- 'Tropical' diseases are rife in the Arctic
- The ozone hole is mending, but...
- Norway's Statoil increases Alaska holdings with ConocoPhillips deal
- Alaska gets $88 million for rural broadband projects
- One-of-a-kind pioneering bush plane sells for $700,000
- SEC tells companies to disclose climate risks
- Royal Marines train at minus 30C in Norwegian Arctic
- Faroe granted license in Norway
- Lobbying, global warming portend U.S. nuclear renaissance
- Lawns may contribute to global warming
- World climate event set for March 27
- New anti-smog restrictions could warm planet
- From inside and out, climate panel is pushed to change
- Climate talks threaten Saudi with anti-oil bias, official says
- Norway, EU agree on mackerel quota
- Courts as battlefield in climate fights
- Nome road could cost nearly $3 billion
- Adventure film about 1925 Nome serum run in works
- Polar bear: Waving, not freezing
- Bill Gates worries climate money robs health aid
- Group seeks citizen oversight of trans-Alaska pipeline
- Scientists 'losing climate fight'
- U.N. climate panel chief: Error shouldn't derail global warming efforts in India
- Past decade warmest on record, NASA data shows
- U.N. wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters
- 83-year-old star heads to Antarctica for month-long documentary shoot
- Norway's oil fund just says no to tobacco
- Oil production continues to fall in Norway
- E.P.A. believes Chevron was aware of pollution violation
- The Kotzebue diaries: Chicken, guns and grub
- Air Force colonel finds his muse in Antarctica
- Census count begins among eskimos in Noorvik
- Kansas researchers complete glaciers study
- Panel says seas may rise seven feet
- Scientist: Cheapskate Canada shuns Arctic research
- Unusual Arctic warmth as northern hemisphere shivers
- Book analysis: From warming to warring
- New site uses video storytelling to capture life, research in Arctic
- U.N. climate change expert: There may be more errors in report
- Murkowski mayhem highlights uncertainties with climate bill
- Antarctic base serving as hub for Haitian relief efforts
- Research seeks links between warming, fishing patterns
- Europe offers space station as platform for climate science
- Major Antarctic glacier reaches tipping point, scientists say
- Global warming speeds up gas emissions, study suggests
- Scandinavian mystery novels hot with readers
- Arctic researchers frozen out of Canadian government's funding, scientist says
- Chinese worker evacuated from Antarctica
- CO2 in oceans may stifle phytoplankton
- Arctic tundra being lost as far north quickly warms
- Burning toilet helping keep polar areas clean
- NASA: Proof of Martians 'to come this year' with help of Antarctic research
- Russian icebreaker heads for Vladivostok after getting stuck in Antarctica
- Man becomes first American to win South Pole marathon
- Norway's total oil/gas output expected to drop in 2010
- New Asia-Europe link planned via Arctic Ocean
- India plans $16 billion energy-saving credit market
- Diving with whales in Norwegian Arctic called among top five riskiest Lonely Planet trips
- Solar shield on agenda at climate summit in California
- 'Sikuliaq' is latest research vessel in Alaska
- Why 1983 was the coldest year ever recorded
- How wetlands worsen climate change
- Alaska's governor seeks investment incentives for oil companies
- Carbon tax wrong way to tackle climate: E.U. trade chief-to-be
- China scraps limits on foreign wind turbine products
- Monsanto GMO ignites big seed war
- Record migration of 50,000 miles made by Arctic Terns
- Judge tosses charges against man in caribou wasting
- Bering Strait influenced Ice Age climate patterns
- Britain on gas alert as extreme cold freezes Norway's undersea pipelines
- Carbon tax wrong way to tackle climate: E.U. trade chief-to-be
- China scraps limits on foreign wind turbine products
- Monsanto GMO ignites big seed war
- Record migration of 50,000 miles made by Arctic Terns
- Judge tosses charges against man in caribou wasting
- Bering Strait influenced Ice Age climate patterns
- Britain on gas alert as extreme cold freezes Norway's undersea pipelines
- Lobbyists help write U.S. bill to limit controls of greenhouse gas
- Whale wars: Sea Shepherd lodges piracy charges against Japanese whalers
- Feeling that cold wind? Here's why
- Whalers now claim protest ship was armed
- Expert: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming
- Nunavut's polar bear hotline bucks conventional wisdom
- China making bets on concentrating solar power
- Oil policy changes bring more public scrutiny to drilling
- Scientists urge end to mountaintop mining
- How long does it take to freeze to death?
- World veterinary agency to probe meat-climate link
- New U.K. offshore wind farm licenses are announced
- Norway says Nordics should continue Iceland bailout
- U.K. issues gas supply alert as Norway flows fall
- Why don't TV weatherman believe in global warming?
- Anti-whalers vow 'no surrender' as superboat sinks
- E.P.A. seeks stricter rules for pollutants causing smog
- Fighting trend, China is luring scientists home
- New online tool lets Alaskans monitor climate change in their back yards
- C.I.A. revives data-sharing program with environmental scientists
- Sarkozy wants French carbon tax to start in July
- Japanese project aims to turn CO2 into natural gas
- Space-age powerboat 'sliced in two' by Japan whalers in Antarctica
- Rare breeds, frozen in time at fertility bank
- Namibia's landmark trees dying from climate change
- Seaweed chokes Australia's Great Barrier Reef
- 'Frozen Gore' sculpture returns to Fairbanks
- Plane used on pioneering flights in the north expected to fetch $1M at auction
- Gas supply faces cuts as temperatures plummet
- Climate change far worse than previously thought
- Relic of Antarctica's first plane found on ice edge
- BASIC nations to meet to firm up climate stance
- Northern Lights to remain at low ebb during winter
- Fault lines remain after climate talks
- Czech scientists leave for Mendel Polar Station in Antarctica
- Getting to the core of global warming
- Frontier scientists track whales in the ice
- Green and pleasant land
- Climate change threatens to starve penguins
- Man wins fourth straight South Pole run
- Economic downturn puts freeze on Antarctic tourism
- 70-knot storm brings end to Antarctic dream
- India scientists launch climate expedition to Antarctica
- Snowstorm squelches climate change protest
- Russia-Belarus oil dispute threatens Europe's oil supply
- Kotzebue musician brings his act home
- Cheers and jeers from the Copenhagen conference

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