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  • New Ice Island Claves off of Petermann Glacier in Greenland

    10.08.2010

    On August 5th, Petermann Glacier, which terminates on the coast of West Greenland, lost about one-quarter of its ice-shelf, producing a 70 kilometre-long iceberg. The glacier is one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland for which its extremity terminates in floating ice shelves, connecting the Greenland Ice Sheet…

  • 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…

  • Cutting Soot Emissions Best Hope for Arctic Sea Ice, Study Shows

    31.07.2010

    In a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres, Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University’s Atmosphere/ Energy Program, found that the influence of black carbon (soot) has been widely underestimated regarding its contribution to global warming. Controlling soot, Jacobson says, may be the only option for saving the…

  • NEEM Ice Coring Project Hits Bedrock in Greenland

    30.07.2010

    On July 27th, scientists from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project made it to the bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet at a depth of 2,537.36 metres. After five years of work, the most international ice coring effort to date (300 researchers from 14 nations) managed to retrieve…

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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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