http://www.polarhusky.com/entry.html From National Geographic News, May 12, 2008 "Greenland's caribou work up quite a hunger during their long migrations. But global warming now has the animals arriving late for dinner - and paying a heavy price."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080512-caribou-warming.html">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsfewercariboubornaswarmingcausesmissedmeals.html Tue, 13 May 2008 11:54:50 GMT From The Independent, May 10, 2008 "Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father's father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the 1400s."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-plea-from-tribe-of-herders-who-face-extinction-825424.html">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsclimatechangepleafromtribeofherderswhofaceextinction.html Sat, 10 May 2008 20:35:10 GMT From The Times of India, May 7, 2008 "Scientists have suggested that due to the adverse effects of Arctic ice melting, the hybrid of a polar bear and grizzly bear - dubbed the 'grolar bear', might rise in numbers."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Earth/Flora__Fauna/Arctic_ice_melt_could_see_rise_of_Grolar_bear_/articleshow/3017967.cms">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsarcticicemeltcouldseeriseofgrolarbear.html Wed, 07 May 2008 22:10:59 GMT From the Helsingin Sanomat, May 5, 2008 "Climate change could bring an unprecedented number of so-called climate, or environment refugees to Finland in the future."<br><a target=blank href="http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Warming+climate+could+bring+many+refugees+to+Finland/1135236075380">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewswarmingclimatecouldbringmanyrefugeestofinland.html Mon, 05 May 2008 13:42:54 GMT From NPR, May 3, 2008 "In the Southwest U.S., biologists are talking about returning beavers to rivers they once inhabited in order to fight droughts � which are expected to get worse as the globe warms. Beaver dams create great sponges that store lots of water."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90160624&ft=1&f=1025">Listen to the Story >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsbeaversoffersolutiontoclimatechange.html Mon, 05 May 2008 13:32:34 GMT From SIKU News, May 3, 208 "And this means no special rights for Saami..."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.sikunews.com/art.html?artid=4791&catid=10">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsanendtoethnicrightssaydemocratsinsweden.html Sun, 04 May 2008 01:12:03 GMT We are happy to report that Paul and the Polar Huskies are now back in the US after 2 long days of driving and flying. http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/teamupdate-1.html Fri, 02 May 2008 16:11:51 GMT From SIKU News, May 2, 2008 "Canada's national Inuit organization rebukes U.S. environmental groups for trying to influence the listing of polar bears in Canada as a species at risk."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.sikunews.com/art.html?catid=2&artid=4784">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsmindyourownbusiness.html Fri, 02 May 2008 16:03:12 GMT From The Daily Green, May 1, 2008 2008 Arctic Forecast: Melty&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/arctic-sea-ice-47050103">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsnorthpolecouldmeltthisyear.html Fri, 02 May 2008 16:00:53 GMT From ABC News, April 27, 2008 "You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility."<br><a target=blank href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4728737&page=1">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsnorthpolecouldbeicefreein2008.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:54:41 GMT From Mongabay.com, April 26, 2008 "A recent study has measured the sensitivity to Arctic marine mammals to climate change. The study found that the three species most vulnerable to climate change are the hooded seal, the polar bear, and the narwhal: the common thread between these species being the loss of sea ice."<br><a target=blank href="http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-hance_arctic.html">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsthearcticsmostthreatenedmarinemammalsduetoclimatechange.html Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:38:48 GMT From RCRIP, April 26, 2008 "NEW YORK -- All indigenous languages are unique and adapted to the local environment. This is what unites all Indigenous Peoples - our languages as a specialized part of our cultures and windows to our relationship with nature. Scientific assessments made regarding the future of indigenous and minority languages are not optimistic. Many languages will die in the near future."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank "href="http://www.galdu.org/web/index.php?odas=2738&giella1=eng">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsunallindigenouslanguagesareunique.html Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:51:42 GMT From RCRIP, April 25, 2006 "NEW YORK -- The Nordic Saami Convention stands out as an example of good practice in empowering indigenous peoples to preserve and revitalize their languages. The Permanent Forum hence calls on the Nordic states to ratify the Saami Convention without further delay."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.galdu.org/web/index.php?odas=2735&giella1=eng">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsarcticindigenouscaucusnordicstatesmustratifythesaamiconventionwithoutfurtherdelay.html Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:47:51 GMT From GALDU, April 23, 2008 "NEW YORK -- President of Sami Parliament of Norway Mr. Egil Olli uttered in a speech at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues worries about governments and industrial interests not recognising the Indigenous peoples' rights to take part in governing and benefit sharing from resource exploitation on their lands."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.galdu.org/web/index.php?odas=2721&giella1=eng">Read the Speech >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewssamileaderuttersworriesaboutresourceexploitationonindigenouslands.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:57:40 GMT From SIKU News, April 22, 2008 "Warmth from the sun will increasingly affect Arctic sea ice loss in the summer. As the ice shrinks, incoming sunshine triggers a spiraling effect: the newly exposed dark ocean waters, much darker than the ice, absorb the sun's radiation instead of reflecting it."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.sikunews.com/art.html?artid=4724&catid=19">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewssummersunlethaltoseaicenewresearchshows.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:01:18 GMT From SIKU News, April 20, 2008 "Ministers in Canada, Russia make nearly simultaneous pronouncements about their nations' claims to the polar continental shelf.<br><a target=blank href="http://www.sikunews.com/art.html?catid=5&artid=4712">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewseveryonewantsthearctic.html Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:26:08 GMT From Environmental News Network, April 18, 2008 "Just as canaries help miners monitor underground gases, marine turtles are emerging as excellent indicators of the effects of climate change."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/34919">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsturtlestobeclimatechangecanaries.html Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:43:56 GMT From the South Manchester Reporter, April 17, 2008 "A MODEST ecologist - who as a child never thought he'd ever meet a professor let alone become one - has received one of the highest accolades known to man."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk/news/s/1045709_from_levy_to_the_nobel_prize"> Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/chatexpertcoolscientistinthenewsfromlevytothenobelprize.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:26:18 GMT From The Powell River Peak, April 17, 2008 "People need to do everything they can to prevent global warming, says a professor trained by Al Gore."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19491820&BRD=1998&PAG=461&dept_id=221583&rfi=6">Read the Article >></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/inthenewsearthisinperil.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:15:54 GMT From Vanity Fair, May 2008 "There have been many expeditions to the North Pole, but it was Russia's, last summer, that touched off a furor over who owns the Arctic-and the oil that is becoming more and more accessible as the ice disappears. From the halls of Moscow's scientific institutes, where global warming is not part of the official story, to Siberia's permafrost tundra, where reindeer are dying and a powerful greenhouse gas is bubbling from the ooze, the author probes the secrets of Yakut shamans, woolly-mammoth skeletons, and a new Great Game: energy exploration."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=blank href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/arctic_oil200805?printable=true&currentPage=all">Read the Feature>></a> http://www.polarhusky.com/entry/thearcticoilrush.html Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:46:11 GMT