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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
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The Canadian Arctic Archipelago is a vast area, comprising some 36, 000 islands.
BBC: Canadian glaciers face 'big losses'
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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
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Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (Hial) said the weather of recent UK winters had been Arctic-like.
BBC: Scottish airports firm looks to Norway's winter tactics