Category: policy / funding
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On this Social Network, Sea Ice, Traditional Foods, and Wildlife Are Always Trending
HAKAI MAGAZINE — Using an app developed by Inuit in Nunavut, Indigenous communities from Alaska to Greenland are harnessing data to make their own decisions.
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In Canada’s boreal forest, a new national park faces the wrongs of the past — and guards our climate future
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AUDUBON — Thaidene Nëné, declared this summer, is a milestone for an Indigenous-led conservation movement that can help keep carbon in the ground and protect crucial habitat as the planet warms.
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Butterflies in the storm
BIOGRAPHIC — As Hurricane Irma was bearing down on the Florida Keys last September, Erica Henry was watching from Raleigh, North Carolina. Henry, an ecologist, had packed up and left the Keys at the start of hurricane season and was supposed to be working on her doctoral thesis. But instead of writing code for a…
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Cost of Arctic fieldwork limits research
SCIENCE — Funding sources are often insufficient to cover expenses, limiting scientists from understanding how Arctic ecosystems are responding to climate change.
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Nations put science before fishing in the Arctic
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SCIENCE — Nine nations and the European Union have reached a deal to place the central Arctic Ocean (CAO) off-limits to commercial fishers for at least the next 16 years.