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shine india monthly magazine subscription Published this article page no 17 The Arctic region comprises the Arctic Ocean and parts of countries such as Canada Denmark (Greenland) Norway Russia USA (Alaska) Finland Sweden and Iceland. These countries together form the core of the Arctic Council an intergovernmental forum. The region is home to almost four million inhabitants of which about onetenth are indigenous people. Indias engagement in the Arctic Indias engagement with the Arctic began when it signed the Svalbard Treaty in February 1920 in Paris between Norway the US Denmark France Italy Japan the Netherlands Great Britain and Ireland and the British overseas Dominions and Sweden concerning Spitsbergen. Ever since then India has been closely monitoring all the developments in the Arctic region. India initiated its Arctic research program in 2007 with a focus on climate change in the region. The objectives included studying teleconnections between Arctic climate and Indian monsoon to characterize sea ice in the Arctic using satellite data to estimate the effect on global warming. India already has a research station in the Arctic Himadri for the research work. Significance of arctic study for India Though none of Indias territory directly falls in the Arctic region it is a crucial area as the Arctic influences atmospheric oceanographic and biogeochemical cycles of the earths ecosystem. Due to climate change the region faces the loss of sea ice ice caps and warming of the ocean which in turn impacts the global climate. The frigid Arctic which keeps losing ice due to global warming is one of the batteries feeding the variations in Indian monsoons shine india monthly magazine subscription buy.
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