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1. News - China - ENVIRONMENT

   China's Xuelong ice-breaker docks in Shanghai after Arctic voyage

   Posted Sep 27th 2012, 03:50pm by Associated Press in Beijing

   ... News China Arctic Associated Press in Beijing A Chinese icebreaker has docked at Shanghai after becoming the first Chinese vessel to cross the Arctic Ocean. The landmark trip is part ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1048610/chinas-xuelong-ice-breaker-docks-shanghai-after-arctic-voyage
2. News - China - DIPLOMACY

   China gets observer status on Arctic Council

   Posted May 16th 2013, 12:00am by Reuters

   ... co-ordinates Arctic policy, is gaining clout as sea ice thaws to open up new trade routes and intensify competition for oil and gas - estimated at 15 per cent and 30 per cent respectively ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1238539/china-gets-observer-status-arctic-council
3. Breaking the silence

   Posted Jan 06th 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Films Arctic Peter Hoeg tells Ben Naparstek about the music and mysticism of a novel 10 years in the writing When Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow was published in English in 1993, critics celebrated its haunting mixture of Arctic conspiracy and moral outrage at colonial Denmark's dispossession of Greenland's native Inuit population. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/621875/breaking-silence
4. News - World - TECHNOLOGY

   Google team maps Arctic town with Inuit expert's help

   Posted Apr 01st 2013, 12:00am by GDN

   ... News World Google Maps Arctic The Guardian in Montreal It has charted the world's highest peaks, the ocean floor, the Amazon rainforest and even provided a glimpse into the hermit state of North Korea. But Google's mission to map the world has steered clear of the inhospitable Arctic. Now, however, the search-engine firm is embarking on what might be the most ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1204161/google-team-maps-arctic-town-inuit-experts-help
5. News - World - SCIENCE

   Camels roamed the Arctic millions of years ago, study says

   Posted Mar 07th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News World Arctic Coastal Greenland Camel Agence France-Presse in Paris Discovery of fossilised limb bone on island along northwest tip of Greenland is proof, study says Camels ... the ships of the Arctic? That's according to Canadian palaeobiologists, who found evidence that giant camels roamed the High Arctic millions of years ago, when that region was relatively balmy ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1183699/camels-roamed-arctic-millions-years-ago-study-says
6. News - China - DIPLOMACY

   Landmark decision sees China join Arctic Council as an observer

   Posted May 19th 2013, 12:00am by STEPHEN CHEN

   ... News China China diplomacy Arctic Council Marine Diplomacy Stephen Chen binglin.chen@scmp.com Observer status means Beijing agrees to surrender all possible claims and rights to a region that is controlled largely by eight bordering states China's diplomats have won a long-running cold war with the country's marine officials over the Arctic. For years they debated whether China ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1240869/landmark-decision-sees-china-join-arctic-council-observer
7. Shipping magnate creates history

   Posted May 27th 2011, 12:00am

   ... to sail non-stop through the Arctic wastes to Asia. The Hong Kong-registered Nordic Barents, led by a Russian ice-breaking vessel, transported 40,140 tonnes of iron ore concentrate from ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/968865/shipping-magnate-creates-history
8. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Safety first in the race for Arctic oil

   Posted Jan 22nd 2013, 12:00am by ARNE JERNELOV

   ... Comment Insight & Opinion Oil Drilling Environment Arctic Ocean Arne Jernelov Arne Jernelov says those who wish to drill in polar seas need to be fully prepared for the risks The rapid shrinkage of Arctic ice cover is one of the most dramatic changes in nature currently occurring anywhere on the planet, with profound environmental and economic implications. More immediately, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1133104/safety-first-race-arctic-oil
9. News - World - ARCTIC

   UN sounds alarm over record Arctic ice melt

   Posted May 02nd 2013, 06:08pm by AFP

   ... Meterological Organisation said that during the August to September melting season, the Arctic’s sea ice cover was just 3.4 million square kilometres. That was a full 18 per cent less than the previous ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1228487/un-sounds-alarm-over-record-arctic-ice-melt
10. Arctic Tale (DVD)

    Posted Jul 04th 2008, 12:00am by Miranda Yeung

    ... Arctic Biology Entertainment Zoology Miranda Yeung Acombination of the messages in Happy Feet, March of the Penguins and An Inconvenient Truth, Arctic Tale owes its creation to the penguin tales that preceded it. And was unlikely to have been so successful had An Inconvenient Truth not help spark a global campaign for climate change. It's not that Arctic Tale isn't ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/643976/arctic-tale-dvd

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