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Richard Allaway

geographyalltheway.com - AS / A2 / IB Geography - Periglacial environment - 0 views

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    The aim of this lesson: To be able to explain permafrost, patterned ground, solifluction, thermokarst, pingos. Redeveloped March 2012
Robert Cooper

World's most northerly oil platform - 0 views

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    LUKOIL's platform in the Barents Sea.
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    Useful for resource development in a periglacial environment. Also see the excellent TV advert at emerson/lukoil; and details of the ice breaking oil tanker, Timofey Guzhenko, that reaches the platform.
Kathleen Noreisch

The Arctic oil rush | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Greenland is a land apart - where many people welcome global warming, dislike Greenpeace, and hope the arrival of Big Oil will transform their lives. But at what price to this pristine wilderness?
Kathleen Noreisch

Climate change in Russia's Arctic tundra: 'Our reindeer go hungry. There isn't enough p... - 4 views

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    For 1,000 years the indigenous Nenets people have herded their reindeer along the Yamal peninsula. But their survival in this remote region of north-west Siberia is under serious threat from climate change as Russia's ancient permafrost melts
Kathleen Noreisch

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists explain Arctic stone circles - 1 views

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    patterned ground
Kathleen Noreisch

Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth - Europe, Travel - The Independent - 3 views

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    Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun Walker enjoys a mini-break in deepest Siberia
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