1. Eight Countries Own Land in the Arctic Circle The exact dividing line for the Arctic circle falls between the 66th and 67th parallels in Earth's Northern Hemisphere.Cburnett/Wikimedia Commons (CC by XYZ), Jetting into the Arctic Ocean, Alaska's Point Barrow is the northernmost tip of ...
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and this has repercussions on countries far away. Image: Eco-Business “We must be more civilised than to have death in order to start paying attention,” remarked Professor Kim Holmén inArctic Awakening,...
The article focuses on accepting of agenda of the Arctic Council by China for promoting environmental protection. Topics discussed include the legal rights of China under the United Nations Convention of the Law of Seas (UNCLOS), role of UNCLOS in helping the states for establishing breadth of ...
participation in the EU-funding and research projects with the Arctic countries. The belonging to the larger Arctic community is exemplified in the areas of Education, Research and Innovation, Cultural Ties, Rural Connections, Climate Change, Environment and Clean Energy andSustainable Economic Developmen...
What is 'Arctic' about 'Arctic security'? Pauline Pic & Frédéric Lasserre This work focuses on the governance of the Arctic, through the prism of security, by analyzing arctic strategies and security policies from coastal countries around the Arctic Ocean in order to understand how they ...
Paralleled with this, facility-based care (here nursing homes) has, at least in the Nordic countries, gradually become a care service only for those older people with severe cognitive or physical impairment. The notion is that older people with functional disabilities should be given services at ...
The characteristics and values of traditional cultural landscapes are comprehensively outlined by addressing biodiversity, agrobiodiversity, and agrodiversity as well as ecosystem and landscape services. Additionally, cultural landscapes are considered as potentially healthy environments and approaches, and related...
year,about385,000peoplefrom192countriestookpartintheGBBC. ThisglobaldatagoesintotheeBirddatabaseusedbyscientistsforresearchonbird populations,whichhavedeclinedsharplyoverallinpastdecades.It’spartofarisein“citizen science”projectsinwhichvolunteerscollectdataaboutthenaturalworldforusebyresearchers. ...
More than half of the oil used in the United States is imported from other countries. This has a significant impact on the economy of the U.S. Two-thirds of this imported oil is used for transportation. Because so much oil comes from outside of the United States, changes in prices and...
so manufacturers are more likely to wait until 4g is more established before putting multi-band chips in phones that will allow them to work in different countries. on a positive note, australia and parts of europe and asia use the 1,800mhz frequency that's being used by ee, so in...