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Norway's state-owned energy giant Statoil on Wednesday evacuated around 330 people from a North Sea platform off the coast of Norway after it began listing.
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An Icelandic woman starts her journey to the South Pole today. She intends to walk 1140 kilometers to be the first Icelandic women to reach the Pole.
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The first drilling for natural resources in Alaskan waters for over two decades has been completed for this year. Shell was drilling and intends to return next year to go even deeper.
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Arctic Portal is broadcasting live from the Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) workshop in Kautokeino, Norway, this week. The ARR is an Arctic Council project led by Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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Arctic Portal is broadcasting live from the Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) workshop in Kautokeino, Norway, this week. The ARR is an Arctic Council project led by Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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Russia opened its latest gas production site this week. President Vladimir Putin formally opened the commercial production at the Bovanenkovo field on the Yamal peninsula in extreme northwestern Siberia.
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The Australian runway on Antarctica is melting fast. The melting is causing problems in transport and there will be no flights from Australia to January.
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A polar bear and a cub were shot in the town of Kangaatsiaq in Greenland yesterday. The pair had been circling the town for a few days.
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One of the biggest oil deals in history was concluded this week. The Russian state-run company Rosneft is now on par with energy giant Exxon Mobil.
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Arctic animals are under severe threat because of warming climate and there might be no polar bears in the Russian wild in 20-25 years. This is the prediction of leading polar bear specialist, Nikita Ovsyannikov, deputy director of Russia's polar bear reserve on Wrangel Island in the Chukchi Sea to the northwest of Alaska.
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The INTERACT call for summer 2013 and winter 2013/2014 will be open for one more week or until 31st of October.
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A total of 14 polar bears were seen last week in the small town of Igloolik, in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.
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Russia intents to lift up two nuclear submarines who sunk in the Arctic. The submarines are the nuclear powered K-27 and K-159, who sunk in the Kara Sea and the Barents Sea.
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The eight member states of the Arctic Council have agreed to sign a binding treaty concerning response for potential oil spills in the Arctic.
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The latest issue of the SCAR newsletter is now available. SCAR is the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, an inter-disciplinary committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
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