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Arctic Leaders Sound The Alarm Over Global Warming
Arctic community leaders sounded the alarm Tuesday over the threat posed by global warming to their way of life, but also that of people in warmer climes. The Arctic leaders were in Brussels on a visit aimed at keeping the pressure on European Union countries to fight climate change by cutting greenhouse cases and raising awareness about global warming. "There is some tough sledding ahead to make the rest of the cuts in greenhouse gases that will be needed", said Gary Harrison, a tradition chief for Chickaloon Village in Alaska. "That's why we came, to let people know that climate change is already having an effect in the Arctic, and it will soon be affecting them here," he added. Harrison, who also chairs an organization representing the Athabaskan people of Alaska and Canada, said he had personally witnessed the effects of climate change in receding glaciers and the early melting of snow in the spring. Global warming has also led to the arrival of mosquitoes bearing infectious diseases in the far north. In Russia and Canada, authorities are growing increasingly concerned about forest-fires while people reindeer herders are finding their livelihood increasingly under threat. In Scandinavia, more frequent rains in the winter causing sheets of ice to develop top of snow, causing animals to die of hunger because they can not reach the grass underneath. "We are not asking for sympathy," said Larisa Abrutina, vice-president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North. "We are asking each country in the world to examine if it is truly doing its part to slow climate change." All rights reserved. � 2004 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links TerraDaily Search TerraDaily Subscribe To TerraDaily Express 
Ohio State Shares In $19 Million Center To Study Polar Ice
Columbus OH (SPX) Apr 26, 2005Ohio State University 's partnership in a new $19 million Science and Technology Center could give scientists a look at a part of the earth never before seen - the part that is buried under several miles of polar ice.
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