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As the climate warms and ice roads become more unreliable, northern Canada is turning to technological solutions to give them longer lives, as well as looking at building alternative routes.
Read more: Thin Ice: The Drive Toward All-Season Roads in Canada’s North
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The Queen Elizabeth Islands’ glaciers – forming the third biggest contributor to sea-level rise after Antarctica and Greenland – are melting at a dramatically increasing rate. Journal author Romain Millan explains why it started happening in 2005.
Read more: Canada’s Melting Ice Caps Are a Big Driver of Rising Sea Levels
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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.
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As station chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Barrow Observatory, Bryan Thomas has had a front-row seat to the dramatic changes taking place in the Arctic.
Read more: Taking the Measure of Tumultuous Changes at the Top of the U.S. Arctic
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A research project is examining how the establishment of Russia’s Northern Sea Route has shaped the lives of residents along the country’s northern coast, amid the booms and busts of industrialization.
Read more: Examining the Human Impact of the Northern Sea Route