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Climate change makes Antarctica greener, raising concerns over ecosystems

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 16:37 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 16:41
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When most people think of Antarctica, they picture a continent of ice. But a recent study reveals that climate change

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 16:40 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 19:17
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On any given day, a visit to the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Arctic gallery in Ottawa, Ontario will be filled

Plants getting credit for stabilizing banks of big rivers that were expected to erode. Leon Andrew describes Arctic willow as

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 00:30 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:15
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Botanists from the Canadian Museum of Nature are travelling to Hudson Bay, near the community of Arviat, Nunavut on an

The tundra lakes that form over permafrost have been considered contributors to greenhouse gas accumulations and climate warming. The formation

Mosses and other plants that grow in northernmost North America are also found in southern South America, but not in

Anchorage’s soggy and warm winter has been tough on Knobby, a Bactrian camel at the Alaska Zoo, among other animals.

Diminished Arctic sea ice and thawing permafrost, phenomena that reinforce the climate change cycle and perpetuate the region’s warming trend,

Ancient plants exposed by newly melted ice on Baffin Island suggest that summers in the eastern Canadian Arctic are warmer

It’s one of the last unchanged Arctic refugia in the world. Or, it was. The vast area around Hudson Bay,

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 09:55
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Plants that managed to re-grow after centuries buried under Arctic glaciers could prove useful for would-be pioneers hoping to explore