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Arctic Canadian city of Iqaluit sets record high temperature for Jan. 19, reaching 0.5 C

CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 22, 2021 at 15:47
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If Iqalummiut feel like winter has been especially mild this year, they’re not wrong. Temperatures have been unseasonably balmy by Iqaluit standards

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Top 5 weather stories in the Canadian North for 2020

Bradlyn Oakes, CBC North
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 12:27
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What a year! For many, 2020 is one we’re happy to leave behind. So much happened over the last 12

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New foundation to advance Canadian Museum of Nature Arctic projects in 2021

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, December 28, 2020 at 15:00
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A new foundation set up earlier this year will help finance some of the northern projects planned at the Canadian

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UN environmental assessment shows need for more offshore permafrost research

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 12:30
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The damage that comes with on-land permafrost thaw in the Arctic is well documented. What’s less well understood is how

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Dene Chief in Canada’s Northwest Territories calls on gov’t to act on Alberta’s leaking tailings ponds

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 20:58
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New report shows concerns over Alberta tailing ponds leakage date back to 1970s A recent report that documents the leakage of

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Gwich’in Tribal Council supports wind project in Arctic Canada despite Nihtat Gwich’in Council opposition

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 7, 2020 at 11:38
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Grand Chief says Nihtat Gwich’in argument against wind turbine ‘fundamentally flawed’ The Gwich’in Tribal Council wants to see a wind energy

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Temperatures in Canada’s Northwest Territories soar above zero

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 4, 2020 at 10:30
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The mercury hit 11.1 C in Norman Wells, breaking a record for December Unseasonably warm temperatures so far this month

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Int’l Inuit org disappointed over “weak” heavy fuel oil ban approved by IMO

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 10:47
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The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), an organization that represents the approximately 180,000 Inuit in Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka,

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International ban on heavy fuel in Arctic shipping full of gaps: environmentalists

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, November 23, 2020 at 12:29
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‘A catastrophic spill in the Arctic — you can’t measure those costs,’ says Andrew Dumbrille Environmental groups say a new

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As IMO meeting gets underway, NGOs urge strengthening of draft heavy fuel oil ban in Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2020 at 15:52
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As the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting gets underway this week, NGOs are calling for the

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In the Arctic, ‘everything is changing,’ massive animal tracking study finds

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 6, 2020 at 11:58
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Archive of over 200 studies since 1991 reveals climate change impacts on 86 species Animals across the Arctic are changing

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Canada announces $1.43 million for Inuit protected and conserved area on Hudson Bay island chain

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 16:35 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 16:46
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The Canadian government announced on Thursday that they’ll invest $1.43 million in the creation of an Indigenous Protected and Conserved

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Microplastic pollution in Antarctic waters mirrors rates in North Atlantic and Mediterranean

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, October 26, 2020 at 15:42
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Microplastics have been identified in Antarctic waters at rates that mirror the amounts found in oceans elsewhere in the world,

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Report highlights dramatic increase in fuel consumption in Arctic shipping

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, October 23, 2020 at 12:19
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Fuel consumption by ships plying Arctic waters grew by 82 per cent in recent years, according to a new report

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Climate change driving food insecurity in First Nations communities while Canada stands by, report says

Ryan Patrick Jones, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 16:32
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Human Rights Watch criticizes ‘inadequate’ government response to issue, calls for stronger climate targets The federal government is not doing

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