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Future ocean changes: What can ecosystem models tell us?

Written on September 26, 2022.

– By Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz – Climate change is impacting all aspects of life across the globe. Oceans are becoming warmer and more acidic causing a cascade of consequences for marine life — heightened...

Ocean Decade Community of Practice

Written on September 6, 2022.

– By Jia Yi Fan – The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (referred to as Ocean Decade) is an effort to catalyze action and innovation in order to achieve “the science...

Monitoring climate change with the support of local communities in the Northwest Territories

Written on July 26, 2022.

– By Andy Vicente-Luis, Emma Riley, Elyn Humphreys, Philip Marsh, William Quinton, Oliver Sonnentag – Arctic-boreal regions are warming rapidly, with increases in surface air temperatures over double...

Cities drive global warming, but change is possible

Written on July 18, 2022.

-By Hind Al-Abadleh- Urban areas around the world are responsible for more than two-thirds of global greenhouse gases. At the same time, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dire....

Timothy R. Parsons – Obituary for the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Written on June 27, 2022.

Professor Timothy (Tim) R. Parsons (OC, FSRC) passed away in hospital on April 11, 2022, in the company of his family. Tim was one of Canada’s most eminent marine scientists and recipient of many national...

Measurement and Modelling of Snow in Arctic Tundra and Taiga Biomes: A Photo Story

Written on June 18, 2022.

– By Georgina Woolley –

Arctic Awesome: The Story of the ‘Cool’ Students of ‘Not Cool’

Written on May 17, 2022.

– By Halah Mhanni, Safia Soussi and Amy Mann – It is well known that the Arctic is warming around twice the global average, three times the global average in Canada. This substantial rate...

The retreat of Arctic glaciers that end in the ocean since 2000

Written on May 9, 2022.

– By Will Kochtitzky and Luke Copland – The glacier-ocean interface is a dynamic part of glacier and fjord systems. All glaciers, both land and marine-terminating, lose mass due to melt,...

Peatlands at COP26

Written on April 29, 2022.

– By Lorna Harris – Our planet is warming, and this will have profound impacts on ecosystems and the species that depend on them, including us. This was one of the main messages of the new...