Antarctica & Arctic

"Fishing Ban In International Arctic Waters Remains Elusive"

"More than a year ago, five Arctic nations signed a declaration pledging to keep their fishing fleets out of the international waters in the Arctic Ocean, an area increasingly ripe for exploitation as summer sea ice diminishes — and perhaps increasingly vulnerable with so little known about its ecology."

Source: Alaska Dispatch News, 12/06/2016

"Warming Climate Expected To Squeeze Out Arctic Bird Habitat"

"Many species of shorebirds that migrate to the Arctic each year to breed their young will lose substantial amounts of their summer habitat to climate change, and the biggest losses in the coming decades will be in Alaska and neighboring parts of Russia, new research concludes."

Source: Alaska Dispatch News, 08/08/2016

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