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The US Geological Survey is lining up a project with the firms BP and Statoil to find oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean under the auspices of a flagship scientific initiative intended to tackle global warming.
But the head of the British Antarctic Survey, which coordinates UK activity at the poles, has said he is “very uncomfortable” with the idea and has questioned its ethical and scientific justification.
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