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Greenpeace activists secure an arctic survival pod on the underside of the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig off Greenland's coast on Sunday, May 29, 2011, in an attempt to stop a Scottish oil company from starting deepwater drilling in the arctic waters. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Steve Morgan)
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A new assessment of climate change in the Arctic shows the ice — including in Greenland (pictured) — is melting faster than previously thought and sharply raises projections of rising global sea levels this century. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from July 19, 2007, an iceberg is seen off Ammassalik Island in Eastern Greenland. The Arctic is a thermostat against overheating and a barometer of change, but now its own protective ozone layer that keeps out damaging ultraviolet radiation has thinned to record levels, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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A Peregrine falcon perches on a cliff in Greenland. Researchers from the Peregrine Fund are examining the birds as they migrate through southern Texas for any potentially harmful effects from BP's April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Associated Press)
