An icebreaker is seen in the back ground of a frozen Kara Sea.

An icebreaker in the Kara Sea in April 2015. Stories concerning drilling and shipping were among your most read Eye on the Arctic stories this week. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty)

Politics, pot & polar ice – Arctic week in review

On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this week:

– A study done in Nunavik, the Inuit self-governing region of Northern Quebec, suggests a link between cannabis use and lowered diabetes risk

-A report out of Alaska finds that the waters where a Shell ship was damaged hadn’t been charted since 1935

-The U.S. Coast Guard lays out the plans, and challenges, of this summer’s Arctic drilling season

– Irene Quaile, the Iceblogger at Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle,  takes a look at the implications of a six-metre sea level rise for the poles.

– A major Arctic meeting is being planned in Alaska and would include U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

That’s all from us for this week. We’ll be back on Monday with more stories and newsmakers from across the North at www.rcinet.ca/arctic

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc,ca

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