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A troubling decline in the caribou herds of the Arctic
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 24th, 2010
Environment 360: In late July, a group of Inuit hunters set off by boat along the west coast of Banks Island to search for Peary caribou, which inhabit the Arctic archipelago of Canada. Roger Kuptana, a 62-year-old Inuit who had grown up on the island, didn't give his fellow hunters much chance of success in their hunt for the animals, the smallest caribou sub-species in North America. "I think it's a waste of gas," Kuptana told me when I visited his modest home in Sachs Harbour, a traditional ...
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Third-party panel to study Canada oil sands impact
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 24th, 2010
Reuters: Alberta is forming an independent panel of scientists to study data on water pollution near the Canadian province's oil sands after a report by a noted ecologist concluded the industry's operations were contaminating a northern river system. The move, announced by Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner on Friday, is aimed at ending an emotional debate over the impact of oil sands activity on the Athabasca River, which flows north through the massive industrial ...