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Ten countries to bag the 2023 Equator Prize | United Nations Development Programme

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and partners announce the winners of the 14th Equator Prize, acknowledging Indigenous peoples and local communities from ten countries. Selected from a pool of over 500 nominations received from 108 countries, the winners are from Brazil, Burundi, Bolivia, Ecuador, Greenland, Guatemala, Liberia, Philippines, Nepal and Zambia. The winners will be awarded at a ceremony in November, during UNDP’s Nature for Life Hub event.

Climate change puts North Water Polynya, a source of Arctic life, in imminent danger

A keystone structure in Canada's High Arctic is under threat of collapse, and it would take with it a globally unique and fertile piece of the Arctic ecosystem, according to a new report published in the journal Nature Communications.

Arctic Oasis Sustains Northernmost Inuit Communities and Marine Mammals

Table of Contents Arctic Oasis Sustains Northernmost Inuit Communities and Marine Mammals The sun hugs the horizon over northern Baffin Bay beyond the village of Grise Fiord in Nunavut, Canada. Along the shoreline just beyond these buildings, a massive pileup of ice forms one border of the North Water Polynya, a richly biodiverse area of open water. Leah Brown Fisheries and Oceans Canada Between Canada and Greenland lies the most biologically productive ecosystem north of the Arctic Circle: an 85,000-square-kilometer (32,800-square-mile) region of ocean known in Greenland as Pikialasorsuaq (the Great Upwelling) and in Canada as Sarvarjuaq. This marine oasis, which has sustained generations of Inuit hunters and fishers, is kept ice-free by upwellings of relatively warm waters from the Atlantic Ocean. Such open-water areas surrounded by sea ice are called polynyas. In Pikialasorsuaq/Sarvarjuaq, the upwelling allows for an early spring plankton bloom that

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