"People usually don't think about ice and plants in the same breath," said Hermanutz. "But what we found is that —as people in Labrador know — the sea ice plays a really important role in ...

In a tugboat pulling a 54-m barge, they launched at dawn from Port Union, once a bustling hub of factories, fleets and fish plants, but now, like most outports in Newfoundland and Labrador ...