11.   Smith, who studies radioactivity in Arctic waters, said the Kursk reactors would be safe in the short term if they remained intact.

12.   Studies show that arctic waters act as a sink for organochlorines.

13.   The gray whale migrates annually from the Arctic waters of the Bering Sea to mate and give birth in the warm waters of the peninsula.

14.   The Kursk suffered devastating explosions and sank in Arctic waters off northwestern Russia this summer, killing all aboard.

15.   There is no evidence that an American ship or submarine was involved in the Russian submarine accident in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea, Pentagon officials said.

16.   The young whales got lost on their way south from Arctic waters and swam east of Scotland instead of west, Tougaard said.

17.   Twisted and broken, hundreds of feet down in the Barents Sea, the Russian submarine Kursk joins other nuclear debris sunken or discarded in Arctic waters.

18.   Nuclear waste, including discarded reactors from Russian submarines, threatens the Arctic waters of Norway and Alaska warned Norwegian Prime Minister Harlem Gro Brundtland Wednesday.