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Zombie fires in the Arctic smoulder underground and refuse to die – what’s causing them? | Arctic Focus

Changing the nature of polar bear research | Arctic Focus

OpEd: Why Emotions have an important place in science | Arctic Focus

Eric Larsen’s Second Act | Arctic Focus

Cambridge Bay team wrestles with isolation and purpose | Arctic Focus

Ancient rock shares climate clues | Arctic Focus

Arctic rivers face big changes with a warming climate, permafrost thaw and an accelerating water cycle − the effects will have global consequences | Arctic Focus

Nature award for polar bear photo shows that images of these magnificent creatures still have the power to move people

Records in the Ice: Colorado’s Ice Core Facility stores ancient ice for research

As Tundra Thaws, an Alaskan River Turns Orange

Making research a collaborative effort

A prickly personality: Porcupine quills are a wonder of defensive evolution

Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes | Arctic Focus

Antarctica is the only continent without a permanent human population, but it has inspired a wealth of imaginative literature

First polar bear to die of bird flu – what are the implications?

Ice and Fire podcast looks at Sounds of Climate Change in Alaska

Remaking Inuit workplaces through IQ

Backcountry Arctic Science: Canoe Edition

Researchers find herbivore diversity boosts tundra vegetation diversity in Greenland

When polar bears hunt snow geese, hunger justifies the means

The Sounds of Climate Change

Searching for an Ice Bear Svalbard

Turkey with a side of Beluga: Nunavut Holiday Traditions blend old and new

Arctic Report Card 2023

How culturally appropriate diets can be a pathway to food security in the Canadian Arctic

The world’s boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward

Cambridge Bay art program instils more than just creativity

Luminous ‘mother-of-pearl’ clouds explain why climate models miss so much Arctic and Antarctic warming

To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world’s most remote fjords | Arctic Focus

What is climate change’s impact on the snacking habits of Orcas?

‘Music is like therapy’ Rapper uses life in the North as inspiration

How analyzing ancient and modern polar bear samples reveals the full scope of global warming

Polar bears may struggle to produce milk for their cubs as climate change melts sea ice

Global temperature rises in steps – here’s why we can expect a steep climb this year and next

Ancient pathogens released from melting ice could wreak havoc on the world

‘Zombie fires’ in the Arctic

Global warming is changing Canada’s boreal forest and tundra

The melting Arctic is a crime scene

When Greenland was green

'Reasons to stay alive' with Annie Buscemi

Antarctic tipping points

Naurvik

Beluga Whale Live Cams | Polar Bears International

It takes a hamlet to educate the future of Cambridge Bay

New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse

Digitizing 89,000 unseen Inuit artworks, one turntable spin at a time | Globe & Mail

World’s oceans are changing colour | The Guardian

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns

Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s, say scientists

Tiny but tenacious: arctic-alpine plants are engineers and warning bells | Arctic Focus

DNA Barcoding in Arctic Freshwaters With Danielle Nowosad

Microscopic solutions to big problems: Researchers looking to local bacteria to clean up nitrate pollution at mine sites

Meet Qikiqtania, a fossil fish with the good sense to stay in the water while others ventured onto land

How reindeer eyes transform in winter to give them twilight vision

New insights into Fortymile caribou herd a source of both hope and controversy

Connecting fragmented wolverine habitat is essential for their conservation

Wild birds in Yukon test positive for avian flu

Is chronic wasting disease a threat to northern cervid populations?

Once the slick is gone: New tool helps scientists monitor chronic oil in Arctic wildlife

Record-smashing heatwaves are hitting Antarctica and the Arctic simultaneously. Here’s what’s driving them, and how they’ll impact wildlife

Are the northern lights caused by ‘particles from the Sun’? Not exactly

Polar bears eating reindeer: normal behaviour or result of climate change?

Five ways reindeer are perfectly evolved for pulling Santa’s sleigh

Both sides of the border keeping tense eye on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge legislation

The smell of success: Researchers discover castoreum, a smelly beaver secretion, on ancient throwing dart in Yukon

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

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Arctic sea ice hits its minimum extent for the year – 2 NASA scientists explain what’s driving the overall decline

Missing lynx: The boom-bust cycle of the snowshoe hare and its dedicated Arctic predator

Sea ice ecoregions and why polar bears rely on them

Beluga Whale Live Cam

An indicator of environmental change: Studying the physiology thick billed murres

How a Russian Vessel’s Grounding Highlights Perils of Arctic Shipping

“A Kind of Charmed Life” Baby bison have it good in the Yukon—if they can make it past their first month of life

Why is the Arctic warming faster than other parts of the world?

Life in the deep freeze – the revolution that changed our view of glaciers forever

Study of natural hydrocarbon seep in Canada’s Arctic reveals presence of methane-degrading bacteria, healthy animal population

How scientists are restoring boreal peatlands to help keep carbon in the ground

As extreme fires transform Alaska’s boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns

Reclaiming agency: Reviving the once banned practice of traditional Inuit tattoos in Canada

COVID-19 highlights Nunavut's need for reproductive services beyond Iqaluit

Uummati: The women teaching traditional knowledge to pregnant Nunavummiut

The Amazing Breeding Behaviour of Polar Bears

An indicator of environmental change: Studying the physiology of thick billed murres

In the absence of tourists, sea eagles scare cliff-breeding birds in the Baltic Sea

Beluga whistles and clicks could be silenced by an increasingly noisy Arctic Ocean

A bright future: Why Arctic kelp forests may benefit from decreasing sea ice cover

Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere, but that could end with warming and development

How underwater acoustics can help us better understand hooded seals

Arctic Ocean: climate change is flooding the remote north with light – and new species

Greenland is melting: we need to worry about what’s happening on the largest island in the world

Artificial breeding site offers perfect platform for seabird observations

A valuable glimpse into an evasive species: New insights on the seasonal behaviours of Greenland sharks

Community driven research tracking the movements of coastal fish in the western Canadian Arctic

How top predators and fisheries can survive on the same prey

Arctic sea ice is being increasingly melted from below by warming Atlantic water

An indicator of environmental change: Studying the physiology thick billed murres

Svalbard glaciers lost their protective buffer in the mid-1980s and have been melting ever since

We mapped the world’s frozen peatlands – what we found was very worrying

Heat waves, wildfire & permafrost thaw: The North’s climate change trifecta

A valuable glimpse into an evasive species: New insights on the seasonal behaviours of Greenland sharks

Why clouds are the key to new troubling projections on warming

Beluga whales’ silence speaks volumes

Plastic Pollution in the Canadian Arctic: How it got here, and why we should care

Native Species or Invasive? The Distinction Blurs as the World Warms

'Reimagining' the future of agriculture in Northern Canada

Urban Inuk Art: Living out traditional values through art

How will Arctic Char Respond to Rising Temperatures?

Housing is health: Coronavirus highlights the dangers of the housing crisis in Canada’s North

#My ArcticContest Rules

‘By Inuit and for Inuit’ Mobile app bridges traditional knowledge and technology

How Thawing Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic

Sailing to Svalbard: The final destination

Sailing to Svalbard: Fair winds and following seas

Unique Arctic project driven by local Inuit input

Sailing to Svalbard: The Grand Embarkation

Mapping and monitoring: Bringing drone technologies to the Arctic

The art of communication: measuring greenhouse gas exchange in the Arctic

Naurvik project in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut testing new technologies to support food production in the Canadian Arctic

Collapsing permafrost is transforming Arctic lakes, ponds and streams

Beluga whales’ silence speaks volumes

‘The unseen in the Labrador Sea’ Mapping the microbial life of Canada’s Arctic and Sub-arctic waters

Underwater Arctic forests are expanding with rapid warming

Chasing caribou across a changing Arctic

Video: The Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice

How barnacle geese adjust their migratory habits in the face of climate change

Go with the ice (floe), tales from the Research Vessel William Kennedy

Winter storms are speeding up the loss of Arctic sea ice

Huge sharks, tiny plankton: Exploring the changing Arctic from an icebreaker

Making sense of what is happening in the Arctic

Mud hunting around Southampton Island