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The federal government will open up nearly 46,000 square miles off Alaska's northwest coast to petroleum leases next month, a decision condemned by enviromental groups that contend the industrial activity will harm northern marine mammals.

We use about five million tonnes of rock salt each year, most of which ends up in our lakes and rivers. There are a variety of synthetic de-icers, some more eco-friendly than others.

The Arctic Ice Sheet is no longer reaching the Alaskan Northern Coast, and the waves are taking the land and the US Air Force Radar Stations with it. The Radar Stations are also home to contaminants in the soil that will soon end up in the sea.

A rocky outcrop found off the northern coast of Greenland could open up a new front in the looming battle for control of the Arctic and the North Pole.

There’s no need to rehash what we already know. The Arctic is Melting. It’s a fact that we are going to have to come to grips with. Shipping lanes are being changed, animals and natives are being displaced, and ice is disappearing faster than my digg friends when I attempt to swing the conversation away from bodily functions to politics.

Two-thirds of the world's current polar bear population could be gone by 2050 if predictions of melting sea ice hold true, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday.