Antarctic expedition gets up close and personal with a melting glacier
When Britney Schmidt piloted a robot down a narrow bore hole to explore the underbelly of the world’s widest glacier,
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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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Russia’s North Pole platform starts ice drift towards Greenland Sea
The new Arctic research station has been moored to a 42 square kilometer big ice floe in remote Arctic waters
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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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Levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in Antarctica are increasing says study
Fluorinated ‘forever chemicals,’ known as such because that do not naturally break down in the environment, are increasing in one
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Blog: Shetland races to build a sub-Arctic spaceport
On the United Kingdom’s northernmost island, the new space race is getting under way. AAs part of my lifelong odyssey
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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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Scientists identify unprecedented ice loss at two Antarctic glaciers
By using radiocarbon dating on shells, an international team of scientists has identified unprecedented ice loss at two of Antarctica’s
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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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