北极

It lives in all the lands of the circumpolar Arctic. In Canada, this small mammal is found from the northern tip of Ellesmere Island to the southern tip of James Bay.

北极狐生活在临近北极的陆地上，从加拿大北部的埃尔斯米尔岛到南部的詹姆斯湾都能发现它们的踪迹。

The lifestyle of the North American indigenous people and some of the circumpolar cultures including Siberia, Alaska, Greenland and Lapland have been the focus of some studies.

北美原住民和环北极地区文化-包括西伯利亚，阿拉斯加，格陵兰和拉普兰，是数个研究的重点。

If the circumpolar vortex lasts longer than usual in future years, a large ozone hole could be expected to develop above the Arctic.

如果环极涡旋在未来几年里比正常情况下持续更长时间，一个大规模的臭氧空洞就很可能在北极上空发展起来。

The arctic tundra forms a circumpolar band between the Arctic Ocean and the polar ice caps to the north and the coniferous forests to the south.

北极冻原在北部的北冰洋和极地冰盖与南部的针叶树森林之间，形成了一个环绕极地的带。

The boreal owl is distributed circumpolar in the north globe conifer forest, however, its Gansu subspecies A.

鬼鸮隶属于形目鸱科鬼属，在世界上鬼环北极分布，其分布区遍及北半球的北部。

The Inuit Circumpolar Council, which brings together Inuit representatives from around the Arctic, declared "sovereignty" over the Arctic's natural resources in April this year, in an effort to forestall what they described as "inappropriate" development.

因纽特北极圈理事会聚齐了北极圈附近的因纽特代表，该理事会在今年4月公开宣称了对北极自然资源的"国家主权"，这样做是为了先发制人，阻止被他们称作"不恰当的"发展。

Of the circumpolar Arctic.

北极狐生活在临近北极的''。

Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say this shows how quickly the Arctic responds to climatic changes.

科学日志写道，研究表明这说明北极对气候变化的反应有多快。

"The thing is, the Canadian Arctic has a totally different ice regime than the Arctic Ocean," says Stephen Howell, a climatologist at the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

"问题是加拿大北极区域的冰层情况与北冰洋的完全不同。"斯蒂芬。豪威尔说。他是安大略省滑铁卢大学气候变化跨学科研究中心的气候学家。

Is how Konrad Steffen, a climatologist at the University of Colorado, put it last week, releasing the results of a new study. The Arctic sea ice is shrinking so fast that within the next few decades, if not years, it could be completely gone in summertime.

北极的海冰正在飞速消融，照此速度，在今后几十年里，可能就在某一个盛夏时节，它们将完全融化。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。