The Arctic
Consisting of deep ocean covered by drifting pack ice and surrounded by continents and archipelagos around the Earth's North Pole, the Arctic is the planet's largest and least fragmented inhabited region.
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Predicting tipping points in the Arctic
Picturing life in a warmer, climate-altered Arctic is far from straightforward. As the Far North heats up more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, it’s easy to imagine that, in the future, plants and animals to the south will merely march northward together as an orderly group: nature on Baffin Island in a few decades, say, might resemble nature found in northern Quebec today. It’s not that simple.
Published 17 June 2021
NEWS
Scale of countries’ climate commitments before COP would mean the end of Arctic as we know it
On Friday, 17 September 2021, UN Climate Change published a synthesis of national climate action plans, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), submitted by each country under the Paris Agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and deal with the impacts of the climate crisis.
Published 21 September 2021
From The Circle
Saying no to the Baffinland mine expansion in Canada’s Arctic
Located on the northern tip of Canada’s Baffin Island, Baffinland’s Mary River Mine produces 6 million metric tonnes of iron ore every year. It’s already the biggest industrial development project in the Canadian Arctic, but the company wants to more than double its production. Inuit in the area are concerned about the effects, and a public hearing has been taking place in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet.