He said it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a single dime! He never said it wouldn’t cost them 500,000,000,000 dimes! (That’s $50,000 billion, which seems to be what it is costing all of us, so far.) On today’s BradCast, it’s back to the ballroom…and the slush fund and the IRS immunity, among the rest of the unprecedented […]
In the Arctic, connectivity is not an abstract idea — it’s alive in the movement of whales. Grey whales and humpbacks travel thousands of kilometres between Arctic feeding grounds and distant tropical or temperate breeding areas, linking ecosystems that span entire ocean basins. Narwhals and bowhead whales move throughout the Arctic during the seasons. These […]
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Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly started dropping due to a drastic reduction in sea ice extent.
Protecting polar bears could help safeguard a much wider web of Arctic marine life. According to new research led by the University of Alberta in Canada, polar bears can act as an “umbrella species,” meaning that conserving the areas they depend on may also help to protect other species that share the same habitat. Using […]
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New research is challenging long held assumptions about how quiet the Arctic Ocean really is. A study published in npj Acoustics analyzed nearly a decade of underwater recordings from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. It found that the region’s soundscape is far more diverse — and more heavily influenced by human activity — than current monitoring methods […]
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Raymond, Washington — Doug Nussbaum is a retired logger whose morning rituals include a walk down to the bluff behind his house that overlooks a bend in the Willapa River. He is never quite sure just what he will spot — ducks, bald eagles and sometimes seals and sea lions pursuing salmon. On April 1, […]
Last month, tour guides in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard made a grisly discovery, chancing upon the carcasses of a young male polar bear and an adult walrus in an advanced state of decay. They alerted the authorities, who dispatched experts to collect samples.
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Tags: polar bears, Arctic, H5N1, avian-influenza
Financial institutions and investors have urged the European Union, which is considering a review of its approach to putting energy security at the forefront, to stay on track and prevent new gas and oil exploration in the Arctic, Reuters reported. The call highlights investor concerns that the Iran nuclear deal, sparked by US and Israeli […]
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Selon les données de santé publique, le taux d’incidence de la tuberculose est fortement disproportionnée...
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The European Commission is currently updating its Arctic policy, with a new policy statement expected this coming autumn. Unlike the latest policy from 2021, the update will place greater emphasis […]
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A new report says the federal government will need to rely on the expertise of...
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Researchers gathered samples of sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. In some samples, the ice had a granular microstructure, as seen here. Credit: Kenneth Golden
Au programme pour les participants du programme de leadership jeunesse Qaulirmat : de la pêche sur...
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Un organisme sans but lucratif mise sur la jeunesse du Nunavik avec Qaulirmat, leur programme...
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Lonely Planet legend Tony Wheeler had been ‘meaning to’ travel there for years (Picture: Getty Images)
Rugged coastlines, fertile farmlands, and ancient villages steeped in Viking history.
This is what awaits in Orkney , an archipelago of some 70 islands scattered like jewels off Scotland’s north coast.
Tony Wheeler, the founder of Lonely Planet, recently made the trip via the Caledonian…
Arctic Gleam — The Norwegian underdogs have become darlings of European football after David and Goliath victories over some of the sport’s giants. Yet scratch below the surface, is a blueprint for success rooted in community and sustainability.
La plus longue patrouille arctique moderne des forces armées canadiennes s’est terminé grâce à l’expertise...
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Researchers have identified four more members of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition, one of whom was the subject of great debate lasting for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo led the work that analyzed DNA samples extracted from skeletal remains and found matches with DNA donated […]
Maps of the (a) study region and (b) locations of the DTS and DAS cables and borehole; and (c) a photo of the embankment road in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. These observations were used to build and test a digital twin of near-surface permafrost conditions. Credit: Gou et al. [2026], Figure 4
Northstar Island, an artificial island in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, is home to an oil well that produces approximately 10,000 barrels of oil per day. Credit: U.S. Department of the Interior/Flickr, Public Domain
La sécurité alimentaire étant une réalité dans le Nunavik, les communautés se tournent vers la...
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An archive of pilot whale tissue collected around the Faroe Islands has provided scientists with a decades-long record of how different per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulate in remote environments. Credit: Mirek237/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Evidence of how climate change is impacting wildlife in Canada is being provided by new research in the expansion of beaver populations into the Canadian Arctic. The research combines tree‑ring analysis (dendrochronology), with satellite imagery of surface water to pinpoint the spread of the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) in a remote part of Canada’s […]
On Friday afternoon in downtown Anchorage, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, arrived at the Arctic Encounter Summit at the Dena’ina Convention Center, an annual gathering of policymakers, business leaders and international officials focused on Arctic strategy. A day after welcoming news that two additional U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers would be homeported in the state — a […]
As the Nordic country prepares a referendum on reopening EU accession talks, Brussels has signed a new defence agreement with Reykjavík, anchoring the island more firmly in Europe’s Arctic strategy.
The machines came in one by one, weaving in and out of ice jams erupting...
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Decades later, a mystery still hangs over what the fiery descent of Cosmos 954 left behind
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We test the Arctic Freezer 4U-OneX, a 4U cooler designed for the AmpereOne series of processors including the A192-32X 192 core Arm CPU
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A 2010 satellite photo shows the point where a small lake bisects the snowy rim of an ancient glacier on Canada's Baffin Island. The rippling, snow-rimmed structure is the last remaining fragment of a colossal ice sheet that once covered large parts of North America.
The Bergen Line passes through some of Norway (and indeed Scandinavia’s) most breathtaking scenery (Picture: SOPA Images/Shutterstock)
There is no WiFi, but as I discovered, there’s no need for it when you’re zipping along on one of Europe’s most beautiful train journeys.
Technology be damned, the views do the entertaining. I’ve taken the train that runs from Oslo to Bergen many times in both…