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Tag Archives: arctic
Responding to arctic oil spills
Preface. It is nuts to put oil rigs in an area with such vast amounts of ice on the move, and all the additional dangers listed below. No wonder there’s little to no drilling. It’s too expensive to keep oil … Continue reading
Global warming spreads disease in the arctic
[ A summary of the spread of disease in the Arctic in the August 2014 issue of Scientific American follows ] Pathogens moving northward: Aleutian Islands, Alaska. A distemper virus that infects seals in the North Atlantic ocean now attacks … Continue reading