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...have participants joining the route at various points from Seattle to New York City, Shear says, and will cover about 10,000 miles. "The feeling of camaraderie you get from taking part in one of these rallies is pretty euphoric," says Shear, who has ridden her motorcycle to the Arctic Ocean and back...
About 30 minutes before the rally was scheduled to begin, supporters of Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, the Democratic candidate for Senate, gathered in front of the restaurant. Some held signs, while others wore polar-bear costumes in protest of Sununu’s position favoring drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
...time, that chain of reasoning was mostly theoretical. Now, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, an international agency based in Norway, has firmed up at least one of the links. In a report released last week, the group says that polar bears, Arctic foxes, harbor porpoises, seals and birds do indeed show significant contamination, not just with PCBs but also with mercury and other toxins carried north by winds and ocean currents...
Like polar bears, the Inuit of northern Canada and Greenland subsist on seals and other fatty Arctic animals and have some of the highest exposures to PCBs. Nobody has yet reported any hermaphroditic children, thankfully, and while the effects of massive PCB exposure can include cancer and retardation, the lower levels in seals and seabirds haven't been definitively linked to any specific ills...
...Omen If the Arctic ice pack continues to melt at the current rapid rate, a northwest passage allowing ship traffic between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans could open up within 10 years, scientists...