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Friday Jan 15 | Telegraph.co.uk

Cruises: 2010's best destinations

Adventure-seeking cruisers are rushing to see the Arctic before global warming gets a grip.

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Mon Dec 21, 2009

Blather

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

More pictures here>> Nestled into the rocky waste of plataberget Mountain about Svalbard's airport, the Global Seed Vault is at once startling and innocuous.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Wed Dec 16, 2009

Ekklesia Daily News

Icy polar bear melts in Copenhagen while politicians argue

Olaf StorA is a burly Norwegian with a white beard and mane much like that of the ice-sculpted polar bear standing on top of the plinth in front of the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen's Lutheran cathedral - writes Peter Kenny .

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

The Ultratravel top 10 winter treats

From hot-spring holidays in Japan to romantic rail journeys through Siberia, snow travel is the way to go.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

AME Info

GAC announces alliance with Pole Position Spitsbergen and establishes its northernmost base

United Arab Emirates: 4 hours, 11 minutes ago GAC Group has established its latest base on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

International Herald Tribune

Artists in the Arctic

The Noorderlicht, a century-old schooner, carried a boatload of artists in waters around Norway's Arctic archipelago.

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Tue Sep 08, 2009

Earth Times

UN chief Ban Ki-moon briefed on Arctic climate off Norway

Researchers studying the effects of global warming in the Arctic region off northern Norway briefed visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday on their research.

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Sun Sep 06, 2009

Daily Times

UN chief visits 'doomsday' seed vault in Arctic

LONGYEARBYEN: UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited on Wednesday a vault carved into the Arctic permafrost, filled with samples of the world's most important seeds in case food crops are wiped out by a catastrophe.

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Fri Sep 04, 2009

United Nations

Above the Arctic Circle, Ban sees first-hand view of climate change's impact

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has travelled above the Arctic Circle today to experience first-hand the impact of climate change on the fragile region, as fewer than 100 days remain before the start of the United Nations conference where countries will aim to reach a new agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Wed Sep 02, 2009

The Straits Times

UN: Climate change in Arctic

UN SECRETARY General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday visited a research community in Ny-Aalesund in the Arctic's Svalbard archipelago to see the effects of climate change first-hand, officials said.

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Thu Aug 13, 2009

Space Ref

AMASE blog 2009: SLIce: Searching for Signatures of Life in Ice

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Source: AMASE 2009 - Comments Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco: In the last days things have moved ahead in AMASE.

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