Two weeks ago BP announced a new partnership with Rosneft, Russia's state-controlled oil giant, that will see the companies exploring a large and promising part of Russia's Arctic region for oil.

两周前，英石油宣布与俄罗斯石油巨头俄罗斯国家石油建立新的合作关系。这使得这两家公司有望联合勘探俄罗斯北极圈内的广阔而富饶的领土以寻找石油。

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Such concerns have blocked new drilling in Alaska's Arctic waters since 2003, despite a steep decline in oil production in the state and intensive lobbying by oil companies.

2003年以来，尽管阿拉斯加石油产量急剧下降，石油公司也在积极游说，类似的担忧已经阻止了该州在北极海域开发新油井。

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Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft and the United States energy giant Exxon Mobil have announced a strategic deal to jointly explore and develop oil and gas reserves under the sea in the Arctic.

俄罗斯国有石油公司Rosneft与美国能源巨头埃克森美孚已宣布了一项战略协议，共同勘探和开发北极海下石油和天然气。

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Chairpersons and responsible representatives of IHP National Committees from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan attended the meeting together with the representatives of the UNESCO IHP Secretariat and the CIS Executive Committee, scientists from the State Hydrological Institute, State Oceanographic Institute, Arctic and Antarctic Institute, Russian State Hydrometeorological University and Institute of Water Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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An oil spill response barge, the Arctic Challenger, which Shell promised the U.S. Coast Guard was "Arctic ready, " is in Washington state, beset with technical problems.

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And in February 2009 it was discovered that scientists had previously been underestimating the re-growth of Arctic sea ice by an area larger than the state of California (twice as large as New Zealand).

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