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As the habitat for Arctic wildlife shrinks ... one of the world’s most polluted places—sometimes drifts into the Canadian Arctic. There it poisons the food web as it melts.
I’m a polar scientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team ...
Wishing for wildlife sightings in the Canadian Arctic is like writing a letter to Santa Claus. Polar bears, narwhals, and seals were scribbled across every passenger’s wish list. We dreamed of ...
Located on the coast of the Canadian Yukon, 45 miles east of Alaska but separated from Prudhoe Bay by the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it is not the most convenient place to visit. But ...
whether the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, should be opened up for oil exploration. Down in the lower 48, the tangle between oil industry proponents and environmentalists, between ...
One of Canada’s most accessible high Arctic parks, Sirmilik is truly ... jointly managed by Parks Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service, where greater snow goose research has been conducted ...
Visitors can drive through the park's seven-mile trail, encountering elk, bison, wild boars, and arctic wolves roaming ... and-personal encounter with Canadian wildlife that's both educational ...