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NCE UPDATE 21 May 2008 Article Headlines |
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Environment Yukon Forum: Environmental Change: Yukon Challenges/Yukon Solutions Environment After Hours |
| 2 | Yukoners: Join Canada's Top Science Writers For the Nation's Most Exciting Science Conference Whitehorse – The Canadian Science Writers’ Association (CSWA) invites Yukon residents to spend four days with scientists, students, journalists, policy-makers, and the news-makers of today and tomorrow at the CSWA’s Annual Meeting in Canada’s North.
This May 24-27, the Yukon will host the annual conference of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association and you’re invited to take part, starting May 24 in Whitehorse and ending at Haines Junction. |
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Government of the Yukon releases draft Yukon Energy Strategy - May 12, 2008 Help set the current and future direction of energy in Yukon. The Energy Strategy is important to setting the current and future direction of energy in the territory. Your views are important to the preparation of a final Strategy. You are invited to review the draft Energy Strategy and provide comments. Please provide your comments by June 30, 2008. Contact information is provided below. Comments can be submitted in any format. One option is to respond to the questions in the following questionnaire. Review the draft Energy Strategy and submit your comments here. |
| 4 | Government of the Yukon releases draft Climate Change Action Plan - May 12, 2008 The draft Yukon Government Climate Change Action Plan is ready for public review and comment. |
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1 Soils Contain Huge Amounts Of Ancient Carbon: When Does This Carbon Enter The Atmosphere? ScienceDaily Knowing that soils are a potential climate change time-bomb is nothing new — but now, for the first time, a group of international scientists have found a way to distinguish just how much of these ancient carbon stores are being lost to the atmosphere as CO2. This means that in the future they may be able to accurately forecast how loss of soil carbon will impact on climate change. |
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2 Giant study pinpoints changes from climate warming By Deborah Zabarenko |
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3 Ice dwellers are finding less ice to dwell on By Natalie Angier Nobody knows how many walruses the world holds. Recent surveys by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and others put the number at roughly 190,000, with the vast majority of walruses in the Pacific half of the Arctic and sub-Arctic Circle and maybe 10 percent in Atlantic waters. |
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Advancing greenery could further heat the already warming climate For the Arctic, green is the new black. People frequently say “green” to mean “environmentally friendly.” But conifer forests — really big greens — encroaching on Arctic tundra threaten to further accelerate warming in the far North. |
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5 'Climate clues in ice' By Sid Perkins A kilometers-long ice core from Antarctica has recorded climate information for the past 800,000 years and has revealed a three millennia–long period when carbon dioxide levels in the air were lower than any previously measured. |
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6 Environmental groups challenge restrictions on polar bear listing By R.A. Dillon WASHINGTON -- Several environmental groups are challenging the U.S. Interior Department over its decision to create a rule limiting increased protection of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. |
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| The next update from the Northern Climate ExChange will be sent out Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
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