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  • Arctic River Deltas May Hold Important Climate Information

    28.05.2009

    A new study suggests that scientists struggling to understand how Earth’s climate will change in the next few decades could find useful information in sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers. Arctic river deltas have been neglected as records of past climate because the far north is a…

  • Studying the Seafloor around Antarctica Provides New Clues to Sealevel Rise

    07.05.2009

    Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have used sonar technology to map the seafloor around the Amundsen Sea embayment. The images taken revealed troughs and channels that were carved by glaciers thousands of years ago, offering new clues as to the future of…

  • Dust from Patagonia Linked to Antarctic Climate

    30.03.2009

    The movement of glaciers in Argentina and Chile is particularlyinteresting for scientists hoping to understand how the global climatehas changed during the past ice age, in order to help them predictenvironmental changes in the future. A new study by scientists from theUniversities of Edinburgh, Stirling and Lille, published in NatureGeoscience,…

  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet Changed Rapidly in Response to Climate Warming in the Past

    20.03.2009

    New studies from the five-nation ANDRILL (ANtarctic geologicalDRILLing) project, which have been published in the 19 March edition ofNature, show that a slight rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbondioxide may affect the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).

  • Drilling to the Past in Lake Elgygytgyn

    19.03.2009

    A team of German, Russian and American scientists led by a University of Massachusetts professor has been drilling through the bottom of Lake El'Gygytgyn, a crater lake in Siberia. Having left in mid-December, the scientists will be camped out on the banks of the crater lake taking sediment cores from…

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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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