As shrubs take over Labrador s tundra, the effects of climate change stretch beyond the ice
From tracts of tundra being claimed by birch to swarms of biting blackflies, climate change is creating human and ecological disruption in northern Labrador and not just in the winter.
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Inuit elders first flagged the explosion of green across what was formerly rocky tundra in the region
Posted: Apr 29, 2021 5:30 AM NT | Last Updated: April 29
A caribou grazes on dwarf birch and fireweed near the shore of Saglek Fjord, in Torngat Mountains National Park. Shrubs are rapidly overtaking tundra on the northern tip of Labrador, one of the many signs of climate change, which is altering the region.(Darroch Whitaker/Parks Canada)
Posted: Apr 15, 2021 6:04 PM NT | Last Updated: April 15
INUA is the inaugural exhibition at Quamajuq, the new Inuit Art Centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The exhibit includes several remarkable works by artists from Nunatsiavut.(Lyzaville Sale/CBC)
For artist Glenn Gear, having his work included in the inaugural exhibition of Winnipeg s new Inuit Art Centre is a personal and professional honour.
INUA is the opening exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery s Qaumajuq, which houses the world s largest public collection of Inuit art. I m deeply, deeply humbled and so excited for INUA, Gear told CBC Radio s
Labrador Morning this week. I feel like this is the beginning of something really big. And hopefully this will be the first step to seeing more contemporary work by artists and more engagement of the Inuit within this cultural centre and within contemporary art.
A bird s-eye view on Labrador climate change, as drones inform on ice
Rigolet s Eldred Allen and his drone company Bird s Eye Inc. are keeping tabs on changing ice conditions, and helping keep people safe.
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Posted: Apr 07, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 7
Sea ice moves into the Labrador coast each fall, but it was five weeks later than normal for the 2020-21 season.(Eldred Allen/Bird s Eye Inc.)
From the ground, an ice highway near Rigolet looked as it always did to Eldred Allen: newly frozen over, with excited snowmobilers heading over it to their cabins, or on hunting and fishing trips.
China’s Microsoft Hack, Russia’s SolarWinds Attack Threaten to Overwhelm U.S.
China’s global attack on Microsoft’s popular email software revealed last week and an equally sprawling Russian attack discovered three months ago have created a two-front war that threatens to overwhelm cybersecurity’s emergency responders, according to former U.S. officials and private security firms.
The coincidence of two far-reaching hacking campaigns launched by Russia and China, discovered just weeks apart, is now rippling across the global economy swamping insurers, IT staff, and firms that specialize in hunting and ejecting hackers.
The twin hacking campaigns involve the U.S.’s two most powerful cyberspace adversaries, and both have led to emergency meetings of the White House National Security Council, in part because of the unusually wide net cast by the attackers.
The coincidence of two far-reaching campaigns is rippling across the global economy swamping insurers, IT staff, and firms that hunt and eject hackers.