sub-Arctic

After a brutal winter, the lawn sports large blotches of patted down straw, a sort of sub-Arctic permafrost in a region that is supposed to have none.

Neil McCarthy: Good Friday Neil McCarthy 2011

Transocean agreed to acquire Norwegian rig operator Aker Drilling for $1.43 billion, moving to expand into deep, sub-Arctic waters.

What's News: Business & Finance 2011

Environmental groups have used the Deepwater Horizon disaster to argue that oil drilling shouldn't be allowed in Arctic or sub-Arctic areas because controlling and cleaning up a spill similar to the one in the Gulf of Mexico last year would be extremely difficult.

Transocean Reaches Sub-Arctic Deal James Herron 2011

After a brutal winter, the lawn sports large blotches of patted down straw, a sort of sub-Arctic permafrost in a region that is supposed to have none.

Neil McCarthy: Good Friday Neil McCarthy 2011

Transocean bid to expand its business into harsher, more challenging deep-water exploration in sub-Arctic waters by acquiring Norwegian drilling-rig operator Aker Drilling for $1.43 billion.

What's News— 2011

Offshore-oil driller Transocean Ltd. moved to expand into exploration in deep, sub-Arctic waters, even as the company faces ongoing legal and regulatory scrutiny for its role in last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Transocean Reaches Sub-Arctic Deal James Herron 2011

In colder locations, such as the Antarctic, and sub-Arctic, penguins breed in either spring or summer; while in warmer climates like Northern Chile/Peru and the Galapagos Archipelago, breeding occurs on a more continuous basis.

Penguins 2010

Even the sub-Arctic hydrocarbon boom cities of Fort McMurray; Noyabr'sk, Russia; and Novy Urengoy, Russia, must recruit heavily to attract enough foreign workers.

Unfreezing Arctic Assets Laurence C. Smith 2010

Even in the remote Arctic and sub-Arctic, people are abandoning small villages or a life in the bush to flock to places like Fairbanks, Alaska; Fort McMurray, Canada; and Yakutsk, Russia.

Unfreezing Arctic Assets Laurence C. Smith 2010

In 1948 Mowat was commissioned by the Canadian Wildlife Service to investigate declining caribou numbers in the sub-Arctic wastes of northern Manitoba.

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