Northern exposure: Ice melt inspires race for Arctic riches

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Scientists say foxes in Arctic regions, who feed on ocean prey, are being exposed to dangerous levels of mercury. On one Russian island where the population of foxes has crashed, the researchers believe the toxin has played a key role in the ...

WARMING WORLD A new study suggests that the glaciers in the Canadian Arctic archipelago could lose as much as one-fifth of their volume. Such a melt would add 3.5 cm to the height of the world's oceans, writes Jonathan Amos The glaciers of the Canadian Arctic ...

Sea Turtles or marine turtles are turtles that inhabit all of the world's oceans except the Arctic. And most species of sea turtles are endangered. The seven living species of sea turtles are: Flat back Sea Turtle, Green Sea Turtle, Hawksbill Sea ...

Carbon dioxide emissions are soaking into Arctic waters and affecting the chemistry of the ocean, a new report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program shows. Increasing carbon dioxide emissions and freshwater runoff challenge the ocean's ...

According to a new report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), global warming is making the Arctic Ocean acidic. The atmospheric pollution levels and carbon dioxide emissions have caused the damage in the Arctic seas to an irreversible ...

?Wind patterns are left in the ice pack that covers the Arctic Ocean north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska March 19, 2011. Picture taken March 19, 2011.Photo: Lucas Jackson The Arctic ecosystem, already under pressure from record ice melts, faces another ...

BERLIN, May 7 (UPI) -- On the small Russian island of Mednyi in the North Pacific Ocean, where the foxes survive almost exclusively on sea birds and seal carcasses, researchers said they believe mercury has played a key role in the decline, the BBC ...