Posted: May 02, 2021 8:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 2
Shelly Elverum enjoying the magnificent view on the sea ice.(Submitted by Shelly Elverum)
There s regular old table salt, and then there s High Arctic sea salt.
Big difference. It s a lot saltier than table salt, she said to CBC via Facebook Messenger.
Elverum grew up in the North and has been living in Pond Inlet, Nunavut for 20 years.
She says she has spent years learning from Inuit and was inspired to use sea water to gather her own salt.
Shelly Elverum says two litres of water results in about 115 grams of salt.(Submitted by Shelly Elverum)
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2021
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In the summer of 1953, the Canadian government uprooted seven Inuit families from their homes in Northern Quebec, and dropped them high in the arctic, some 2,000 km away, with the promise of better living and hunting opportunities, and with the assurance that if things didn’t work out, they could return home after two years. But promises were broken. For decades, the relocated Inuit families suffered immense hardship, fighting extreme cold, hunger and sickness, yet unable to escape because they were so far away.
The Canadian government claimed that the relocation was a humanitarian gesture to assist the starving indigenous people and help them continue a subsistence lifestyle. In reality, it was an attempt by the government to assert sovereignty in the High Arctic during the Cold War.
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Complete devastation : Renowned polar bear biologist mourned after Nunavut helicopter crash
Scientists are mourning the loss of leading Canadian polar bear scientist Markus Dyck, who was one of three people on board a helicopter that crashed near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, on Sunday.
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Posted: Apr 28, 2021 6:27 PM CT | Last Updated: April 29
Friends are remembering Markus Dyck, a renowned polar bear biologist who died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, along with two other crew members on Sunday. You just don t replace somebody with those skill sets and that breadth of knowledge. (IUCN/Polar Bear Specialist Group website)
Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary
by Gloria Dickie on 29 April 2021
The Arctic Ocean biome is changing rapidly, warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world. In turn, multiyear sea ice is thinning and shrinking, upsetting the system’s natural equilibrium.
Thinner sea ice has led to massive under-ice phytoplankton blooms, drawing southern species poleward; fish species from lower latitudes are moving into the peripheral seas of the Arctic Ocean, displacing and outcompeting native Arctic species.
Predators at the top of the food chain, such as polar bears, are suffering the consequences of disappearing ice, forced onto land for longer periods of time where they cannot productively hunt.