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			<title>Warmest summers in last two decades in northern latitudes were unprecedented in six centuries</title>
			<description>(Harvard University Press release via Science Daily, 13 April 2013) -- Harvard researchers are adding nuance to our understanding of how modern and&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:16:12 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>New arctic research centre opens at U of M</title>
			<description>(CBC News, 18 March 2013) -- A new arctic research facility opened in Winnipeg Monday &#151; the same day a major late-season blizzard hit southern&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:41:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Canadian Arctic glacier melt accelerating, irreversible, projections suggest</title>
			<description>(American Geophysical Union press release via Science Daily, 12 March 2013) -- Ongoing glacier loss in the Canadian high Arctic is accelerating and&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:08:35 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Feds announce site for Nunavut&#146;s Canadian High Arctic Research Station</title>
			<description>(Nunatsiaq News, 27 February 2013) -- The future Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Nunavut moved one step closer to reality, with the Feb.&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Large herbivores are Arctic plants defense against climate change</title>
			<description>(Paul Hamaker/Examiner.com, 20 February 2013) -- In a ten year study unlike any previous analysis, Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:48:48 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Policy: Working together to understand and predict Arctic change</title>
			<description>(Brendan P. Kelly and Simon N. Stephenson/ US Office of Science and Technology Policy press release, 19 February 2013) -- Today, the Administration&#146;s&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:42:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>1,500-year cycle found in Arctic atmospheric pattern</title>
			<description>(National Science Foundation via Epoch Times, 17 December 2012) -- A team of scientists supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:41:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>In Arctic Norway, world's first laboratory inside a glacier</title>
			<description>(Discovery News via Alaska Dispatch, 5 January 2013) -- Above the Arctic Circle, and below 700 feet of ice, scientists are working in the world&#146;s&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:25:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>A new way to study permafrost soil, above and below ground</title>
			<description>(Science Codex, 4 January 2013) -- What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:27:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Ivory gulls threatened by eggshell thinning</title>
			<description>(Unni Eikeseth, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation via ScienceNordic, 20 December 2012) -- High levels of environmental contaminants are linked with&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:25:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bering Sea study finds prey density more important to predators than biomass</title>
			<description>(Oregon State University press release via Phys.org, 3 January 2013) -- Marine resource managers often gauge the health of species based on overall&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:14:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>New 3-D maps give researchers look at icy world of walruses</title>
			<description>(Crystal Gammon/OurAmazingPlanet, NBC News, 19 December 2012) -- Walruses are sort of the Goldilocks of the North Pole &#151; the chunks of sea ice they&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:41:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Russian Arctic research on thin ice</title>
			<description>(Atle Staalesen/Barents Observer, 6 December 2012) -- After many years of expeditions with drifting North Pole stations, vanishing ice forces Russian&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:28:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Climate change, food security, Inuit education and Arctic sovereignty, top issues at ArcticNet's annual scientific meeting</title>
			<description>(ArcticNet press release via Yahoo! Finance, 20 November 2012) -- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Leading Arctic scientists, researchers, policy&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:02:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Jane Glassco Arctic Fellowship helps northerners do northern research</title>
			<description>(Jane George/Nunatsiaq News, 7 May 2012) -- At a time when many northerners say they&#146;re tired of being researched by people from the South, a program&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674joan_glassco_fellows_point_the_way_for_northern_research_by_northerner/</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:07:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Study finds surprising Arctic methane emission source</title>
			<description>(NASA press release, 22 April 2012) -- The fragile and rapidly changing Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:28:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Analysis of speed of Greenland glaciers gives new insight for rising sea level</title>
			<description>(NSF press release, 4 May 2012) -- Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 20:27:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Conference buoys knowledge of modern scientific concerns</title>
			<description>(Hannah Heimbuch/Dutch Harbor Fisherman, 13 April 2012) -- The fifth and largest ever Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference descended&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.thedutchharborfisherman.com/article/1215conference_buoys_knowledge_of_modern</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:03:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters</title>
			<description>(University of Cape Town, Museum of Nature and Temple University press release, 11 April 2012) -- Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120411131915.htm</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:15:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Three cheers for polar bears: New study shows population higher than thought</title>
			<description>(Mark Johnson/newsnet5.com, 8 April 2012) -- CLEVELAND - Residents in the far northern territory of Nunavut in Canada have always disputed the&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/weather/weather_news/three-cheers-for-polar-bears-new-study-shows-population-higher-than-thought</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:06:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice</title>
			<description>(ESA press release via SpaceDaily, 5 April 2012) -- Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ESA_and_NASA_join_forces_to_measure_Arctic_sea_ice_999.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:28:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Declining sea ice to lead to cloudier Arctic: study</title>
			<description>(AGU press release via Physorg.com, 31 March 2012) -- Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past several decades as global climate has warmed.&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:27:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Fossil of beluga ancestor found in Virginia</title>
			<description>(CBC News, 30 March 2012) -- A three million-year-old skull found in the southern United States has traits of both beluga whales and narwhals,&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/03/30/north-virginia-beluga-fossil.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:33:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Arctic sea ice may have passed crucial tipping point</title>
			<description>(Fred Pearce/New Scientist, 27 March 2012) -- The disappearance of Arctic sea ice has crossed a "tipping point" that could soon make ice-free summers&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Canadians donate $10,000 to save Arctic research station</title>
			<description>(CBC News, 16 March 2012) -- Canadians have donated about $10,000 to help keep a unique High Arctic research station from closing after its federal&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Medal created in honour of Arctic scientist</title>
			<description>(CBC News, 21 February 2012) -- The Royal Canadian Geographic Society will recognize scientist Martin Bergmann, who died in a plane crash in Nunavut&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/02/21/north-martin-bergmann-medal.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:29:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>China to boost Arctic research</title>
			<description>(China.org, 24 February 2012) -- China will beef up its effort to explore the North Pole and plan two Arctic expeditions before 2015, according to&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:23:16 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Global permafrost zones shown in high-res Google Earth images</title>
			<description>University of Zurich press release, 21 February 2012) -- Thawing permafrost will have far-reaching ramifications for populated areas, infrastructure&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:24:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Dead for 32,000 years, an Arctic plant is revived</title>
			<description>(Nicholas Wade/New York Times, 20 February 2012) -- Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/new-life-from-an-arctic-flower-that-died-32000-years-ago.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:38:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Volcanic activity behind Little Ice Age</title>
			<description>(Randy Boswell/Vancouver Sun, 31 January 2012) -- Melting icefields on Baffin Island, one of the clearest signs of climate change on Earth, have&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:35:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Arctic scholar, politician Bob Williamson dies</title>
			<description>(CBC News, 13 February 2012) -- Arctic scholar, activist and politician Bob Williamson has died. He passed away Sunday morning in his sleep at the&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:48:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Seal disease investigation intensifies</title>
			<description>(JAVMA News, 1 February 2012) -- The investigation into a fatal disease among ringed seals in the Arctic and Bering Strait regions of Alaska has&amp;nbsp;...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:31:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Traditional Inuit knowledge essential to scientific research: NTI</title>
			<description>(Sarah Rogers/Nunatsiaq, 31 January 2012) -- Is a newly-released study on the behaviour and diet of killer whales in the Canadian Arctic proof that&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674traditional_inuit_knowledge_essential_to_scientific_research_nti/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:22:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Yellow-cedar are dying in Alaska: Scientists now know why</title>
			<description>(Science Daily, 1 February 2012) -- Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120201181218.htm</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:06:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Polar Research article explores use of community engagement in IPY television series</title>
			<description>(Catherine L. Carry, Kath Clarida, Denise Rideout, Dianne Kinnon, Rhonda M. Johnson/Polar Research, 31 January 2012) -- The three-part television&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.naho.ca/inuit/2012/01/31/polar-research-article-on-inuit-tuttarvingat-projectperspective-qanuqtuurniq-finding-the-balance-an-ipy-television-series-using-community-engagement/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:03:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Engine trouble scuttles plans for Arctic research expedition</title>
			<description>(Hannah Hoag/Nature News Blog, 30 January 2012) -- Canada&#146;s Arctic research vessel the CCGS Amundsen has been put out of action while it awaits&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/01/engine-trouble-scuttles-plans-for-arctic-research-expedition.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:37:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>What do killer whales eat in the Arctic?</title>
			<description>(BioMed Central press release, 29 January 2012) -- Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predator, wherever they are found, and seem to eat&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/bc-wdk012712.php</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Airborne geophysical survey offers new insight into permafrost in Alaska</title>
			<description>(U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey press release, 23 January 2012) -- Denver, CO - A pioneering airborne electromagnetic survey&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3079</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:29:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<category>Polar research: Reports and findings</category>
			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Tromso conferences to mull Arctic resources</title>
			<description>(RIA Novosti via Voice of Russia, 23 January 2012) -- More than one thousand politicians and scientists from Russia, Finland, the United States and&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/23/64413447.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:12:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Alaskan lake bed cores show expanding Arctic shrubs may slow erosion</title>
			<description>(American Geophysical Union press release via Physorg.com, 31 December 2012) -- The relationship between permafrost, Arctic vegetation, soil erosion,&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-alaskan-lake-bed-cores-arctic.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening - with video</title>
			<description>(Sandra Hines/UW Today, 4 January 2012) -- A hemisphere-wide phenomenon &#150; and not just regional forces &#150; has caused record-breaking amounts of&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/russian-river-water-unexpected-culprit-behind-arctic-freshening-near-u.s.-canada</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:47:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<category>Polar research: Reports and findings</category>
			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Floating Arctic university</title>
			<description>(Elena Kovachich, Voice of Russia, 3 January 2012) -- A floating university for Arctic research and Arctic staff training will be created in the&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/03/63352991.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:08:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Arctic ozone monitoring stations safe from budget cuts</title>
			<description>(CBC News, 16 December 2011) -- A senior federal official says there will be no cuts to ozone monitoring stations in the Arctic.&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/12/16/north-ozone-monitor-stations.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:58:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Budget cuts claim Alaska agricultural stations</title>
			<description>(Jeff Richardson/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 13 December 2011) -- FAIRBANKS - Budget cuts are forcing the closure in spring of Alaska&#146;s federal&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/16776815/article-Budget-cuts-claim-Alaska-agricultural-stations?instance=home_news_window_left_top_3</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:54:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Increased ice loss resulted in greater Greenland bedrock lifting</title>
			<description>(Ohio State University press release via redOrbit, 11 December 2011) -- A higher-than-normal 2010 melting season sped up the melting of ice in&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112437876/increased-ice-loss-resulted-in-greater-greenland-bedrock-lifting/index.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:02:37 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Identities in Kirkenes</title>
			<description>(Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat, 7 December 2011) -- Anne-Marith Rasmussen is working on a PhD project on young people and&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.arcticpeoples.org/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=449:cultural-complexity-among-youth-in-kirkenes&amp;Itemid=2</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:43:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Melting permafrost amplifies global warming effect</title>
			<description>(University of Florida and University of Alaska Fairbanks press release via redOrbit, 1 December 2011) -- According to a survey published in the&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112432052/melting-permafrost-amplifies-global-warming-effect/index.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:53:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Kuujjuaq workshop fleshes out Canadian Arctic university concept</title>
			<description>(Jane George/Nunatsiaq News, 24 November 2011) -- KUUJJUAQ - If you&#146;re a high school student in Nunavut or Nunavik hoping to graduate in 2012, what&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674kuujjuaq_workshop_fleshes_out_Canadian_Arctic_university_concept/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:50:37 GMT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>Arctic to be the center of a new world by 2300</title>
			<description>(Susan Kraemer/Clean Technica, 26 November 2011) -- If climate change continues along the business-as-usual path, the 24th century&amp;rsquo;s new world&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/11/26/arctic-to-be-the-center-of-a-new-world-by-2300/</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:09:15 GMT</pubDate>
			<category>Arctic</category>
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			<dc:creator>Amanda Graham</dc:creator>
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			<title>University of Alaska science station nets $16 million award</title>
			<description>(University of Alaska Fairbanks press release, 17 November 2011) -- Fairbanks, Alaska - The National Science Foundation awarded $16.&amp;nbsp;...</description>
			<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/uoaf-uoa111711.php</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:19:54 GMT</pubDate>
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