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| | Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Fires have been so severe in recent years -- the five worst forest fire seasons on record have all occurred since 1980 -- that the Canadian forest currently is a source of carbon to the atmosphere. |
 | | This means that ice cover became less compact over the period, the first time that such a trend has been established," Northern indigeneous peoples (Inuvialuit) living in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, report higher wave action and increased erosion as a result. |
 | | In a workshop held May 5-8, 1996 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Dr. Jim Bruce, Co-chair of IPCC Working Group III, said: "What we've seen here in the Mackenzie over the past two decades is part of the climate signal: A foretaste of what's to come. |
| www.climatenetwork.org /eco/cops/cop2/c2.1.canada.html (512 words) |
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