Environmental threat to Arctic.

• Position: UN Reported: News on the United Nations System at Work

By the year 2050, up to 80 per cent of the ARCTIC would be affected by mining, oil exploration and other man-made impacts, if the industrialization of the wilderness areas continued at current rates, reported the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on 12 June. The region's rich and abundant wildlife, especially reindeer, caribou, polar...