Slow start and rough finish: Labrador's sea ice season aided by northern ice migration
The Labrador sea ice season ended on average with thickness, but with rougher, more hazardous ice from the Davis Strait.
Source: cbc.ca
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The Mental Toll of Climate Change
Researchers are more quickly acknowledging the many ways in which the global climate crisis is affecting our mental health.
Source: eos.org
A vanishing world
Winter sea ice is melting away from Labrador, threatening to take the traditional Inuit way of life there with it.
Source: cbc.ca
New Muskrat Falls monitoring committee focuses on food, water and methylmercury levels
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has established a Muskrat Falls Monitoring and Health Management Oversight Committee.
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Source: cbc.ca
National Geographic expedition teaming up with Inuit to visit Nunavik, Que., on conservation mission
The National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas project has teamed up with Inuit elders and experts to visit areas of the North to highlight and help preserve key areas.
Source: cbc.ca
Labrador seal hunt largely sidelined as sea ice hits 50-year low
Mina Campbell has been hunting seals each spring for 40 years, but hasn't made it out once yet this season, due to ice conditions never before seen since record-keeping began.
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Source: cbc.ca
As shrubs take over Labrador's tundra, the effects of climate change stretch beyond the ice
As shrubs take over Labradors tundra, the effects of climate change stretch beyond the ice From tracts of tundra being claimed by birch to swarms of biting blackflies, climate change is creating human and ecological disruption in northern Labrador — and not just in the winter. Social Sharing Inuit elders first flagged the explosion of green across what was formerly rocky tundra in the region Posted: Apr 29, 2021 5:30 AM NT | Last Updated: April 29 A caribou grazes on dwarf birch and fireweed...
Source: cbc.ca