@arcticfocus

arcticfocus has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in October 2019. The social media accounts linked to from arcticfocus are: • Facebook • Instagram • X Besides social media accounts, arcticfocus has populated their site with: • Home • About us • SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter • Arctic Science to Art Contest • 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 • Find Indigenous organizations in you area if considering a donation • 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 • 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 • 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 • ‘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