Tag: Arctic

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Polar bear team update: Today on the tundra

Rhys and I awoke to a crystal clear dawn, a numbing -40C again, and the excitement of reconnecting with the female polar bear and her single cub that we had left at sunset yesterday... Read More
Rhys and I awoke to a crystal clear dawn, a numbing -40C again, and the excitement of reconnecting with...
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Heading north as polar bears emerge from snow dens

It's 0530 and my WWF-US colleague Rhys Gerholdt and I are with an ABC News crew from New York, heading up to Wapusk National Park and the world's largest concentration of maternity dens for... Read More
It's 0530 and my WWF-US colleague Rhys Gerholdt and I are with an ABC News crew from New York,...
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Beaufort Sea initiative

But I don’t have a head scarf, I said, looking at my taxi driver, who came here via Calgary from the Sudan. It’s fine, he said, no one minds. Read More
But I don’t have a head scarf, I said, looking at my taxi driver, who came here via Calgary...
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A winter solstice greeting from Inuvik

I head south for the holidays on the shortest day of the year – the winter solstice on December 21. Yet my journey involves 11 hours’ flying time – five hours from Inuvik to... Read More
I head south for the holidays on the shortest day of the year – the winter solstice on December...
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It’s not too late to save polar bears: study

A new paper published in Nature magazine suggests that reductions in greenhouse gases would be effective in saving polar bear populations from the worst effects of climate change. The report says that the bears’... Read More
A new paper published in Nature magazine suggests that reductions in greenhouse gases would be effective in saving polar...
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Settling into my new role in Inuvik

The Mackenzie River crossing is open - that is, it is frozen hard. I know because today I could find lemongrass, fresh basil and wonderful pears at Arctic Foods. The price of which you... Read More
The Mackenzie River crossing is open - that is, it is frozen hard. I know because today I could...
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