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SpatialNews Press Release
Interactive Arctic Environmental Atlas launched
Environmental information on the Arctic region is presented in a new
interactive map on the Internet. Any standard web browser can be used to
browse and examine the situation in the far north of the World at the Arctic
Environmental Atlas website:
http://maps.grida.no/arctic
The themes in this map primarily concentrate on issues like biodiversity and
conservation -- where the Arctic has a special status, with vast expanses of
still untouched nature, important fish stocks and large seabird colonies.
Other environmental problems that the map touches upon are ecological
footprint, land based pollution and climate change.
The major sources used are some of the best global publicly available
collections of data and maps, that have been collected and projected to show
a polar view, and implemented in this interactive map service. The Arctic
Environmental Atlas also draws from work that UNEP/GRID-Arendal has done for
various Arctic projects over the years, in everything from conservation to
pollution monitoring.
The website was developed by UNEP/GRID-Arendal in Norway, a United Nations
Environment Programme information centre.
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