Taming the Arctic Oil Rush

The Arctic Council was inaugurated in 1996 and provides for cooperation, coordination and integration among the eight Arctic States.

We can now go to the Arctic.

And, of course, Arctic communities are toast.

22 11 Sustainable development of the Arctic

I really, really wanted to go to the Arctic.

This is out at whale camp, on the Arctic Ocean.

We're finding more and more dead bears in the Arctic.

These ringed seals, these are the fatsicles of the Arctic.

An ice free Arctic Ocean may happen in this century.

A polar bear swimming in the Arctic, by Paul Nicklen.

The Arctic, Antarctica and the International Polar Year 2007 2008

The military of the Arctic nations is taking it really seriously.

North America, the Arctic, the Pacific and Central and Eastern Europe

The Arctic region has always been strategically vital for Russia, accounting for roughly 85 of Russia s natural gas production, which is based primarily in Western Siberia. The Kremlin has activated a new military command for the Arctic, and is busy reopening air bases and radar stations along its Arctic shoreline.

With a considerable extent of its land and territorial waters, low population density and sub Arctic to Arctic weather, Norway benefits greatly from the (mainly) United States satellite navigation system, GPS.

And things go white as we move out onto the Arctic Ocean.

This is Daniel he's one of our students in Arctic Village, Alaska.

The thickness of the Arctic decreased more than 40 percent since 1960.

But seven years ago, I went to the Arctic for the first time.

A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.

North America, the Arctic, the Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America

They breed in the high arctic, and they winter down in southern South America.

But they concentrate in the Gulf and then fan out all across the arctic.

This is the foundation of the whole food chain in the Arctic, right here.

Such as the Arctic we have one chance, right now, to get it right.

No one has made a complete crossing of the Arctic Ocean on their own.

The major indigenous organizations in the Arctic are also permanent participants in the Council.

Expressing its deep concern over the vulnerability of the environment and the fragile ecosystems of the polar regions, including the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic ice cap, particularly affected by the projected adverse effects of climate change,

The 1990s were the warmest decade on record, forcing glaciers and Arctic ice to retreat.

Anybody want to come with me to Antarctica or the Arctic, I'll take you let's go.

I spent time skiing across the sea ice for weeks at a time in the high Arctic.

They're found everywhere on the planet except for the Arctic and the southern tip of South America.

Nuclear, the time lag alone will allow the Arctic to melt and other places to melt more.

I guess the iconic figure of it is the melting of the ice in the Arctic Sea.

There are very, very few people who don't know now about what is happening in the Arctic.

And the rate at which the Arctic Sea ice is going away is a lot quicker than models.

They give birth inside the ice, and they feed on the Arctic cod that live under the ice.

In the two years before my swim, 23 percent of the arctic sea ice cover just melted away.

Two years ago, in this very forum, Iceland drew attention to the relevance of the Arctic marine environment.

This fact has also been confirmed by the results of the independent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004.

October can see some intense temperature swings across the U.S. as the Arctic gets cooler, but the tropics remain quite warm.

This is my studio in Brooklyn. This is the Arctic Ocean, and the butchering of the second whale, seven days later.

So the IPCC said that we might see significant breakup of the arctic ice in 2100, in their worst case scenario.

Nunavut Arctic College provides Inuit students with education in certain fields of study and aspires to become a genuine Inuit university.