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The recently announced Year of Polar Prediction will aim to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic region. One puzzle that researchers will be studying is the role that clouds play in the Arctic’s rapid warming.
Increased monitoring of Arctic weather conditions could help predict big storms that strike more southerly latitudes, according to new research by the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan.
One of Canada’s more northerly communities reinvents its relationship with a thawing landscape, reports Hakai Magazine.
The state’s subsistence hunters report the biggest problem they face isn’t declining wildlife populations, but a growing number of obstacles created by climate change, from rotten ice and melting permafrost to fallen trees scorched by wildfires.
Nils Andreassen Executive Director, Institute of the North
The decision by the U.S. and Canada to ban offshore oil development in much of their Arctic waters drew cheers from conservationists, but angered northern leaders – a reminder of why greater collaboration is critical, says Nils Andreassen, of the Institute of the North.
Katherine Weingartner is an ICF contractor for the United States Global Change Research Program where she supports the development of the National Climate Assessment.
Yellowknife’s Kyla Kakfwi Scott helped start Dene Nahjo, an organization aimed at advancing social and environmental justice for northern peoples and promoting Indigenous leadership.
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