For over 230 year, the poles of the Earth have been visualized by the world as white lands without economic potential, surrounded by massive ice where only native citizens traditionally know as Eskimos, passionate scientists and specific species of animals such as polar bears, narwhals and walruses live in. ... A new investigation published in August 2012 in The United Nations Environmental Programme magazine concludes that "between 70 and 95 percent of the Arctic melt since 1951 has been caused by human activity and other pollutants that humans have put into the atmosphere" (UNEP,...

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