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Climate change makes Antarctica greener, raising concerns over ecosystems

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 16:37 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 16:41
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When most people think of Antarctica, they picture a continent of ice. But a recent study reveals that climate change

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Arctic collections behind the scenes—The Canadian Museum of Nature

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 16:40 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 19:17
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On any given day, a visit to the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Arctic gallery in Ottawa, Ontario will be filled

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This stubborn shrub is helping to keep Arctic river banks intact as permafrost thaws

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 11:27
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Plants getting credit for stabilizing banks of big rivers that were expected to erode. Leon Andrew describes Arctic willow as

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General Science Science (Canada) 

Canadian team to study, collect Arctic plants

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 00:30 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:15
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Botanists from the Canadian Museum of Nature are travelling to Hudson Bay, near the community of Arviat, Nunavut on an

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Permafrost lakes are long-term climate coolers, study says

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 11, 2014 at 14:33
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The tundra lakes that form over permafrost have been considered contributors to greenhouse gas accumulations and climate warming. The formation

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Semipalmated sandpipers on a beach in Canada. (iStock)
Environment Environment (USA) Special Features USA 

Birds carry plant fragments from Arctic

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 10:19
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Mosses and other plants that grow in northernmost North America are also found in southern South America, but not in

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Mary Lu, one of the Alaska Zoo's Bactrian camels, in her enclosure on Thursday. The zoo's keepers have had a hard time keeping the enclosure safe for her, with warm weather and freezing rain making the pen very icy. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) Special Features USA 

Weather takes a toll on wildlife, environment in Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 11:05
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Anchorage’s soggy and warm winter has been tough on Knobby, a Bactrian camel at the Alaska Zoo, among other animals.

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Black brant geese. (Tyler Lewis / USGS / Alaska Dispatch)
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Global warming winners? Brant thriving amid changes in Arctic Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2014 at 11:41
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Diminished Arctic sea ice and thawing permafrost, phenomena that reinforce the climate change cycle and perpetuate the region’s warming trend,

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Study: Eastern Canadian temperatures hotter now than in 44,000 years

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, October 25, 2013 at 12:01
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Ancient plants exposed by newly melted ice on Baffin Island suggest that summers in the eastern Canadian Arctic are warmer

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Hudson Bay Lowlands, a vast area of bogs, fens, lakes rivers. One of the last Arctic refugia, it too is showing dramatic changes due to warming which could have a dramatic effect on fish and wildlife, residents, and affect global climate (Kathleen Ruehland / Queen's University -PEARL)
Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands succumbing to climate change

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2013 at 09:40
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It’s one of the last unchanged Arctic refugia in the world. Or, it was. The vast area around Hudson Bay,

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The plant samples from the glacier were sprinkled onto Petri dishes and stuck in a growth chamber. Eleven of them grew. (Catherine La Farge/University of Alberta)
Canada Environment 

Plants revived after 400 years in Arctic ice

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 09:55
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Plants that managed to re-grow after centuries buried under Arctic glaciers could prove useful for would-be pioneers hoping to explore

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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