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The term "Arctic" varies in its usage. It can be defined as north of the Arctic Circle (66° 33'N). Alternatively, it can be defined as the region where the average temperature for the warmest month (July) is below 10 °C (50 °F); the northernmost tree line roughly follows the isotherm at the boundary of this region.
The Canadian government warned in December that among the “potential threats” in its Arctic region were “increased Russian activity in Canadian air approaches” and “China’s regular ...
Ladies, Przemysław. "The United States and Canada towards Russian Arctic Policy: State of Play and Development Prospects." Society and Politics 2 (63) (2020): 73–103. online; McCormack, Michael. "More than Words: Securitization and Policymaking in the Canadian Arctic under Stephen Harper," American Review of Canadian Studies (2020) 50#4 pp ...
The U.S. Arctic Policy Group is a federal interagency working group comprising those agencies with programs and/or involvement in research and monitoring, land and natural resources management, environmental protection, human health, transportation and policy making in the Arctic.
Nighttime lows will be mainly in the 20s Monday and beyond when the arctic air arrives. In Houston, there may be a couple of days when temperatures reach no higher than 40 degrees with nighttime ...
Also excluded were Indigenous organisations such as the permanent participants of the Arctic Council, like the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) [7] The 2008 Arctic Ocean Conference (where the declaration was drafted) was hosted by Per Stig Møller, Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, and Hans Enoksen, Greenlandic Premier at the time. [8]
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme was established as a working group of the Arctic Council in 1991. [1] Its main function is to advise the governments of the eight Arctic member nations [ 2 ] —Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States—on environment-related issues such as pollution. [ 2 ]
ArcticNet also manages the Arctic Inspiration Prize on a voluntary basis. [ 2 ] The governance structure includes a board of directors who oversee two divisions: (1) the science programme, led by an Inuit Advisory Committee and a Territorial Advisory Committee, to whom the Scientific Director reports, and (2) the network administration overseen ...