The tiny flying green annoyances seemed to be in greater numbers than usual this year in late May and early June. They wouldn’t leave me alone. I even found one sitting on the edge of a toothbrush-holding coffee cup at our house. One day, they persisted in collecting on my four-wheeler’s windshield as I […]
A new study by the AWI shows that marine heatwaves have been taking a greater toll on the Arctic Ocean in recent decades and that there is an urgent need for further research In recent years, marine heatwaves have been taking an ever-greater toll on the world’s oceans and their ecosystems. Amplified by increasing […]
Hamilton, ON – Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon’s deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, microbes and large mammals, offering detailed genetic information about an environment that no longer exists. It is among the oldest ancient DNA ever recovered and sequenced. In […]
An international team of scientists has, for the first time, quantified the total carbon stored in permafrost at the mouth of rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean. According to a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications, about 1% of the world’s permafrost surface area lies in Arctic river deltas, which occupy an […]