id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kca7nv6vtzc5xobwmppdkx3d54 Nigel Williams Fears over Arctic research plans 2006 2 .pdf application/pdf 1266 77 66 A new polar research effort is raising concerns that it may bolster fossil fuel extraction and increasingly threaten many local species. Fears over Arctic research plans to work alongside oil companies to Statoil to find oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, under the auspices Arctic and Antarctic is a central the Arctic Ocean could be ice free including oil, gas, coalbed methane world's undiscovered oil and gas Arctic Ocean's ice cover retreats. Dwindling: The polar ice cover is receding, opening up oceans to fossil fuel prospecting to the alarm of many researchers. swan found in a Scottish fishing snapshot of the day's newspaper looks at the differing Scottish and H5N1 virus in various countries oil and gas. lay under the Arctic Ocean. the ice retreats, oil companies are At sea: A signature Arctic species, the and oil licences to 17 companies. The spread of this sort of development around the Arctic ./cache/work_kca7nv6vtzc5xobwmppdkx3d54.pdf ./txt/work_kca7nv6vtzc5xobwmppdkx3d54.txt