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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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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