Geopolitical Monitor - Environment - Geopolitical Analysis on Environment Issues Facing Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East

April 28th (Business Week) - Norway and Russia have resolved a four-decade struggle over contested borders beneath the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean, opening the area for development

April 28th (BBC News) - Officials are considering setting fire to an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as efforts to stem a leak from a rig that exploded and sank are failing.

April 27, 2010 (AFP) – An increasingly desperate search for food is driving a mass exodus from parched agricultural land in western Africa's Sahel region where the UN says up to 10 million people face hunger.

April 23rd (BBC News) - The US Coast Guard says that no oil appears to be leaking from a rig that sank off Louisiana on Thursday.

Plane operators are up in arms, which is just about right, since they can barely get their machines off the ground.  Blanket cancellations of flights and airport closures made in response to the explosion of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano continue to pressure airlines and passengers alike.

April 19, 2010 (Press TV) - European airlines lose $200mn per day for flight cancellations due to Iceland's volcanic activity.

April 14th (BBC News) - Australian officials have arrested the captain and chief officer of a Chinese coal ship which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

April 14th (BBC News) - Some 400 people have died and thousands are feared injured after a magnitude-6.9 quake hit western China's Qinghai province, officials say.

OTTAWA, Mar. 29th (Toronto Star) - Canada took a kicking as it hosted a five-nation Arctic summit that left three other countries and the Inuit that live at the top of the world out in the cold.

WHITEHORSE, Mar. 23rd (UPI) - A survey of the arctic's biodiversity reports a 26 percent decline in species, including caribou and lemmings, in the past 34 years.