The minister's visit to Antarctica came ahead of next week's launch of International Polar Year (IPY).
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This month is the launch of International Polar Year (IPY) -- an ambitious scientific effort involving over 200 projects -- which will study exactly these types of geological changes.
In a project within the International Polar Year called Igliniit, Inuit hunters recorded their observations of wildlife, sea ice, weather or other environmental phenomena as they travelled across the land.
"We've almost been negotiating each of our roles, " says Lorenzo Tellera, a 25-year Polar veteran who heads the packaging and metalworking division.
Last year, backed by Polar's board and executive comMITtee, Mendoza engineered a plan to establish better coordination within the 58-year-old family group.
Each year around 600 polar bears are killed there, mainly by native hunters.
Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been named as the recipients of this year's Polar Music Prize.
Police found and killed the three-year-old polar bear that attacked the man, and later shot and killed a female polar bear and her 18-month-old cub, according to official reports cited in the newswire.
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Before his latest adventure, 68-year-old Fiennes described polar exploration as a drug or addiction.
The Bush administration was supposed to make a decision on the status of the polar bear by January 9 of this year.
About 800 polar bears are killed by subsistence hunters each year, the U.S. says.
Russian police were forced to shoot and kill a mother polar bear, her cub and her three year old after the three year old bear mauled and killed a 33-year-old man on Friday, Ria Novosti reported.
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Now in recognition of Tudor's hardy entrepreneurial spirit - as well as almost two decades of scientific research on the continent - he has been awarded the Queen's Polar Medal (PM) in the New Year's honours list.
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Its lead author was UCL's Seymour Laxon, the renowned polar scientist who tragically died following an accident on New Year's Day.
That same year he had a revelation, after watching The Polar Express, that 3-D would be the future of filmmaking.
One winter day in northern Quebec some years ago, a polar bear wandered into a village and approached a seven-year-old Inuit child.
Walking by a fast-moving creek on the property, the 60-year-old Duluth native pointed out where the polar bear, Berlin, sought to escape rising water by moving to higher ground outside his cage.
For my last zapovednik evening, another ranger, Kolya Solovev, invited our half-a-dozen-strong geyser valley community to his cabin to dine on smoked salmon and watch a slideshow of polar bear and musk oxen, whose company Solovev enjoyed the year before when rangering at the Arctic zapovednik that protects all of Wrangel Island.
The move comes a year after an episode of Frozen Planet, featuring a polar bear with her cubs, was criticised.
Every year, 300, 000 seals meet their end not by mauling from a polar bear, but instantaneously from gunshot or a blow from a club.
Mr Pullar is autistic and bi-polar, with severe learning difficulties, and when he was 18, he spent almost a year at Winterbourne View from July 2009.
Dr Giles had taken on new commitments at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at UCL following the accidental death of her colleague Seymour Laxon earlier this year.
Mr Evans, who completed the trek with polar guide Geoff Somers on 5 January, maintained a strict fitness regime for more than a year before the trek to ensure he was fit enough.
She cited Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " with its frozen polar wastes and specters of "Nightmare Life-in-Death, " which as an 8-year-old child she had heard the poet recite in her father's parlor, and she made several dark allusions to the alchemical experiments of Paracelsus and Cornelius Agrippa, two Medieval figures with whom Percy had become obsessed during his studies at Oxford.
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