Ice-Blog: From Alaska to Ottawa
Ottawa has been the setting for “Arctic Change”, another major Arctic conference this week. It is organised by the research
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Ice-Blog: Arctic icon in decline
As I plan my coverage of this year’s annual UN climate conference, this time in Peru, a news item from WWF pops
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Climate change adversely affecting Arctic wildlife
There is increasing evidence that climate change, which is warming the polar region, is having a negative affect upon a
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Enough M’Clintock Channel polar bears to increase hunting quota?
The first of a three-part polar bear count in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot region has wrapped up, but it will be impossible
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Slideshow: The secrets of Manitoba’s boreal forests
When most people think about Canada’s province of Manitoba, they think about prairies. But in reality, Manitoba is home to
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Ice-Blog: First World Wildlife Day and the Arctic
Maybe like me you were not aware that up to now there had been NO World Wildlife Day. Sometimes I
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Changing sea ice may be spreading diseases among mammals
The warming climate is helping spread southern pathogens and diseases north, scientists have found. But what about northern pathogens and
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Polar bears and the ripple effect of climate change
For years people have been concerned about the fate of polar bears in the face of climate change. The bears
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Where Arctic camels once roamed, coal mining can wait
A coal exploration project proposing to tread the same ground as the ancient fossil forests on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has
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Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands succumbing to climate change
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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Russia sees Wrangel Island oil and gas potential; Greenpeace eyes an eastern Arctic front
A remote island off northeast Russia has been swept into that nation’s campaign to capitalize on the Arctic’s potential for
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Hunters leaving Arctic Canada fined $80K
Mexican hunters had polar bear pelts, narwhal tusks from hunt in Nunavut Some big-game hunters from Mexico were fined after
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