Lene K. Holm wins a Women of Discovery Award 2008
- Lene K. Holm
Wings Worldquest celebrates the International Polar year by presenting the annual awards for Earth, Sea, Air and Space, Field Research, Humanity and Courage to seven Arctic explorers this year.
Lene K. Holm, ICC Greenland Director of Environment received an Explorers award for her Field Research on the project Sila-Inuk.
Follow this link to Wings Worldquest's announcement:
http://wingsworldquest.org/cgi-bin/iowa/explorers/record/264.html
2008
2007
Qaanaaq Sea Ice Knowledge Exchange - Trip Objectives and Draft Proposed Schedule - Pdf - 92 Kb
Serious concerns expressed about anti-sealing campaigns at NAMMCO meeting from Tromsø Meeting March 1st 2007 - pdf-format (43 Kb)
Petition aims to puch U.S. to moral high ground on climate
http://www.cbc.ca/north/story/icc-petition-05122005.html
Axworthy casts lot with Inuit on climate change
http://www.cbc.ca/north/story/inuit-axworthy-08122005.html
U.S. isolated at UN climate change summit
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Inuit sue US over climate policy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4511556.stm
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