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04.10.2007 The Inuit people's intimate relationship with their environment makes them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, says indigenous activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier.
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From: Global Issues
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Russian Federation] [Canada]
27.11.2006 from Oil Change blog:
Here's another reason to diversify away from oil now.
Image: This environment is pristine but for how long?

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Related topics/regions: [Energy] [Climate change]
And what about the Antarctic ice sheet?
22.08.2006 from NASA earth observatory:
A new gravity survey from two satellites reveals that the melting process may be approaching a point where it won't be centuries before Greenland's ice melts, but a much shorter time-frame.
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Image: And what about the Antarctic ice sheet? © British Antarctic Survey
20.02.2006 Greenland's glaciers are melting even faster than previously thought and contributing more and more to sea level rise. Scientific reports say the amount of ice being dumped into the ocean from the Greenland Ice Sheet has doubled in the last five years.
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From: Greenpeace International
Related topics/regions: [Climate change]
10.08.2005 Fish, birds, and marine mammals in Greenland and the Faroe Islands are polluted with fluorinated chemicals, a new study shows - with polar bears the most contaminated.
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From: WWF International
Related topics/regions: [Faroe Islands] [Animals] [Pollution]
29.05.2001 An air base in Greenland with key strategic value to United States plans for strengthened missile defence has taken centre stage in a new debate over total independence for the Danish territory.
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From: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
Related topics/regions: [Denmark] [United States] [Europe] [Geopolitics] [Security]
05.12.2000 Inuit groups from Russia, Alaska and Greenland are to meet former South African president Nelson Mandela at an anti-toxics conference this week to push for pledges to protect their food sources from "persistant organic pollutants".
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From: Environment News Service (ENS)
Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] [South Africa] [Food] [Pollution] [Indigenous rights]
24.07.2000 Greenland's ice sheet - which holds almost 10 percent of the world's frozen water - is melting at a rate of more than three feet a year in places, a new survey reveals.
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From: Environment News Service (ENS)
Related topics/regions: [Environment] [Climate change]
13.10.1999 Greenland is squaring up for a clash with environmentalists at next month's World Trade Organisation summit, over the rights of its Inuit hunters to sell seal fur abroad.
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From: Guardian Unlimited
Related topics/regions: [Trade] [Animals] [Indigenous rights]
13.09.1999 The traditional Inuit belief that criminals should not be imprisoned lives on in Greenland. Lucy Jones reports from Nuuk.
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From: Guardian Unlimited
Related topics/regions: [Ethics & value systems] [Justice and crime]