Russia to evacuate Arctic research station

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 14:40
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Russian research station North Pole -40. (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Russia)

Russia has ordered the evacuation of one of its Arctic research stations after melting ice conditions rendered it unsafe said Sergei Donskoy, Russia’s minister of Natural Resources and Environment, in a statement posted on his ministry’s website on Thursday.

Research station North Pole – 40 is located on an ice floe. However, the ice around the station is reportedly breaking up.

All equipment and the sixteen people working at the station will be removed.

North Pole – 40 was set up to research weather and the Arctic environment.

The ministry is planning to move the research station to Severnaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Russian Arctic.

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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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