Now here in Canada we have huge frozen Arctic islands which are almost totally uninhabited …for a good reason.

在我们加拿大，有着很多巨大的冰雪覆盖的北极岛屿，几乎无人居住。

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By centurys end, the only polar bears left might live in the Canadian Arctic islands and along the west coast of Greenland.

到本世纪末，仅存的北极熊可能将生活在加拿大北极岛屿及格林兰岛的西海岸地区。

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Two recent events have refocused attention on the field and the wider hydrocarbon potential of the Canadian Arctic Islands.

最近两个事件使得这个地区再次得到关注，加拿大境内的北极圈内的岛屿中有更广阔的油气潜力。

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Environment California estimate that plastic bags kill up to one million sea creatures every year, and the British Antarctic Survey have found them floating far north of the Arctic Circle, and as far south as the Falkland Islands.

CNN: Fighting the tide of plastic bags in a world awash with waste

The Canadian Arctic Archipelago is a vast area, comprising some 36, 000 islands.

BBC: Canadian glaciers face 'big losses'

Meanwhile, the Russian navy has in recent days been engaged in what it has presented as a dramatic anti-piracy mission: apprehending, off the Cape Verde islands, eight people on board a Russian-owned cargo ship called the Arctic Sea, whose crew claimed to have been hijacked, at least briefly, in the Baltic in late July.

ECONOMIST: Piracy and private enterprise