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Thu 04 Apr 2008Arctic ice not infinite, but human stupidity
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YOU WOULDN'T expect to find robins as far north as the Arctic Circle. Neither would the Inuit, who have lived there for thousands of years. There is no word for robin in their language, Inuktitut, although this bird has now become a regular visitor to this once-frozen terrain, writes John Gibbons.
The global warming debate can at times seem a little abstract, but in the Arctic, it is a very real presence that is bearing relentlessly on all living organisms and systems in the region.
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