This stubborn shrub is helping to keep Arctic river banks intact as permafrost thaws
Plants getting credit for stabilizing banks of big rivers that were expected to erode. Leon Andrew describes Arctic willow as
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Book recovered from Franklin ship could show whether other written items are salvageable: historian
A leather-bound folio found in one of Capt. John Franklin’s doomed ships might just show how recoverable other documents might be
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Weasel ‘discovery’ in Nunavik highlights gap between local knowledge and research
Residents of Salluit, Que., regularly see weasels. But you wouldn’t know it from the science journals. A researcher has, for
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Climate change driving narwhals to change migration timings
Researchers have detected striking changes in narwhal migration times driven by climate changes in the North. “Our long-term dataset identified
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Arctic Ocean acidifying up to four times faster than any other sea on Earth
What may be the broadest and longest study to date has found Canada’s Arctic Ocean is growing more acidic up
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Researchers dive for kelp in the Arctic
Divers are wrapping up an expedition in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, after weeks of studying seaweed biodiversity. It’s an area that’s
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Picture from N.W.T. among winners of international astronomy photography competition
Taking photos of our universe is hard work, but the winners and contestants in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of
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Project laying groundwork to better track future climate impacts on seaweed in Arctic
A group of researchers are currently in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago studying seaweed, with a view to how it can help
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NASA and German Aerospace Centre hold open house in Yellowknife
NASA and the German Aerospace Centre are both conducting research on climate change in Arctic regions, and they held an
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Massive balloon examining black hole passes over Nunavut before landing in N.W.T.
From the ground, it looked like a second moon floating across the sky. A research balloon that was the size
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Microbe discovery in Arctic Canada could help better understand life on Mars
Researchers from McGill University have discovered microbes in a spring in Arctic Canada that has such unique conditions, it could
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Arctic research station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, reopens after pandemic closure
Closure gave researchers extra time to fine-tune the facility COVID-19 pandemic restrictions kept the doors of the Canadian High Arctic
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As rabies returns to Arctic Canada, researchers look to predict future outbreaks
Susan Tulugarjuk was walking to work in Igloolik one morning in December when she felt something bite the back of
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Giant sponges feeding on fossils discovered in deep Arctic waters
Deep beneath the ice-covered Arctic Ocean, scientists have made an unusual discovery. With little to no light, huge sponge gardens
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Meet the five experts who just received the British Polar Medal
Four scientists and an Operations Director were recently awarded the Polar Medal by Queen Elizabeth, according to The Gazette, the
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