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  • Satellite Images to Allow Accurate Mapping of Penguin Colonies over Broad Regions

    10.08.2010

    Biologists at the Australian Antarctic Division have found a new way to develop penguin habitat maps. Basing themselves on satellite images of the extent and repartition of penguin excrement, in combination with an estimate of penguin numbers within smaller parts of the habitat, they are now able to provide accurate…

  • Antarctic Krill Survey Near Livingston Island Reveals Dense and Stable Populations in Shallow Waters

    05.08.2010

    The results of the first multiyear survey of Antarctic krill show that the coastal waters near Livingston Island have a significantly higher krill biomass density than offshore waters. In their study, published in the  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, the team of researchers from Stony Brook University and…

  • Permafrost Continues to Warm in Northern Hemisphere; Monitoring Increasing

    05.08.2010

    An extensive study on permafrost shows that  permafrost warming continues to spread throughout a wide swath of the Northern Hemisphere. The results of the study, recently published in the journal Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, describe the thermal state of high-latitude permafrost.

  • Ice-free Arctic Not Very Effective as Carbon Sink

    03.08.2010

    While researchers in past years suggested a melting Arctic Ocean could be an ally in the struggle against rising levels of carbon dioxide, new research published in the journal Science shows this may not be the case. The results of a survey conducted in the waters of the Canada Basin…

  • Tree Ring Study Shows Signs of Reversing Arctic Cooling

    31.07.2010

    While some parts of the Arctic have cooled over the past century, overall temperatures have seen a steady rise since 1990, according to a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years. In their study, which was published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, scientists from the Institute…

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  • Preparing country food to share at the Tukisgiavarik drop-in centre.
  • The community centres are based on Inuit values, which put emphasis on taking care of others in their community. Inuit come to the centres not only to get food, but also to converse with other Inuit and feel a part of their culture.
  • Caribou in the Canadian Arctic, a traditional source of protien for the Inuit. Climate change is changing the natural distribution areas of animals and changing ice conditions, making it more and more difficult for hunters to get traditional country food.
  • With fewer and fewer hunters in the Candian Arctic and a transition to a mixed economy, many Inuit are increasingly becoming dependant on store-bought food.
  • Food that has to be shipped to the Arctic from elsewhere can be three times as expensive compared to Southern Canada. Traditional Inuit country foods sold in stores are often the most expensive products.

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