Ice-Blog: Fires, drought, heatstroke – will this climate emergency tip the scales to action?
In Europe and other hitherto little affected parts of the world, we are currently experiencing some devastating impacts of climate
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Environment
Record warmth, regional contrasts, mark 2025 in Canada’s Arctic: report
Canada’s Arctic Archipelago saw some record-high temperatures in winter 2025, even as parts of north-central Canada were colder than average
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Bug-eating plant found near Iqaluit, far north of usual habitat
By Arty Sarkisian Plant aficionado believes find could be a sign of a changing climate Plant aficionado Klaus Koehler was
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Feds to clean up old Arctic weather station contaminated by asbestos, lead
By Arty Sarkisian Experts hope its contamination is a warning for future development The site of Isachsen is a snapshot
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Chinook salmon in decline, worsened by Bering Sea heatwave a decade ago: study
By Julia Parrish NOAA says 2016-2020 heatwave in the Bering Sea hit already suffering population hard Yukon River Chinook salmon
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Unusually balmy June comes on tail of Finland’s record spring warmth
Finland’s Lapland region experienced some out-of-character balmy and wet weather this June, following a warmer-than-usual spring across the country. Nationwide,
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N.W.T. government implementing fire ban for all public and private lands in North Slave
By Saloni Bhugra This is the 2nd time this summer the territory has implemented a sweeping fire ban for the
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Back burning planned to head off wildfire near Wrigley, N.W.T.
By Jessica Davey-Quantick The fire that forced the evacuation of Wrigley moved closer to the community on Sunday night The
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Bear killed after wandering into Yellowknife neighborhood
By Niles Niemuth The bear was spotted in Northlands by a resident at around 11 p.m. on Sunday A black
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Dead salmon in northern Sweden are worrying researchers and fishermen
In the Torne River, Sweden’s most important salmon river, both sick and dead salmon have been found. A new report
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Underwater images reveal 1st look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton
Peter Cowan · CBC News Antarctic explorer’s ship that sank in 1962 tangled in fishing nets some 400 metres below the Labrador
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Semi-annual international caribou conference held in Yellowknife
By Kaila Jefferd-Moore Hundreds of caribou biologists, harvesters, co-managers, and community members from across the spectrum of caribou monitoring, research
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Nunavut gov’t proposes a tenfold increase to Baffin Island caribou harvest
By Samuel Wat The Nunavut government is recommending a tenfold increase to the Baffin Island caribou harvest after a “dramatic
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Hotter, drier summers causing wild berry declines in Gwich’in Settlement Area, new study finds
By Yumna Iftikhar When Annie Buckle was growing up in Aklavik, she said wild berries were so abundant that they
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Trump administration to auction oil drilling rights in Alaska wildlife refuge
The Trump administration on Friday will hold a sale of oil and gas leases on 689,000 acres (278,828 hectares) in
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