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  • Maria S Merian Measures the Warming of the Arctic Ocean

    10.10.2006

    According to Dr Ursula Schauer of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) the water that flows from the Norwegian Sea to the Arctic has been an average 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer in 2006, than in 2005.

  • New Strategies to Mitigate Arctic Climate Warming

    10.10.2006

    Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks proposed four policy strategies aimed at sustaining the people and environment of the Arctic in the face of global and regional warming. Their research focused on Alaska as a particularly appropriate case study because its ecosystem services such as water, food and fuel,…

  • Monster Fossil Discovered in the Arctic

    10.10.2006

    Palaeontologists from the University of Oslo’s Natural History Museum have discovered 150 million-year-old fossils of plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs (two groups of extinct marine reptiles) in a remote part of Spitsbergen, the largest island in Norwegian archipelago.

  • ANDRILL’s New Ice Shelf Project

    10.10.2006

    A New Zealand-led, international group of 50 scientists are pursuing a research project in Antarctica to determine past ice shelf responses to climate forcing, including variability at a range of timescales.

  • New Evidence That Climate Change Can Have a Rapid Effect on Oceanic Circulation

    09.10.2006

    Scientists have been measuring shifts in temperature over Greenland and tropical rainfall patterns at the time of the last ice age, both of which changed the salinity of the north Atlantic Ocean.

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  • An elder preparing country food her family has brought her. Inuit who have a hunter in the family have much better food security.
  • 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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