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The race to save Arctic cities (in Canada & elsewhere) as permafrost melts

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NATIONAL  OBSERVER In Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, a good home is hard to find.  More here. NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The walls of this immense Siberian crater are more than 85 meters tall in places.  Batagaika Crater has formed as rising temperatures have thawed the permafrost in Siberia. Warmer summers and shorter winters are causing the frozen layer cake of ice and soil to collapse (or “slump”) and erode away in much of the Arctic. 

Modern, U.S. Family Farm Pastures its Pigs.

RODALE INSTITUTE A behind the scenes look at the Rodale Institute Organic Hog Facility with Farm Manager Ross Duffield. More here.

Alien Waters: Neighbouring Seas Are Flowing into a Warming Arctic Ocean

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Yale Environment 360 Drift ice in the  archipelago of Svalbard. Photo by  AWeith   The “Atlantification” and “Pacification” of the Arctic has begun. As warmer waters stream into an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, new species — from phytoplankton to whales — have the potential to upend this sensitive polar environment. More here.

Beavers do 'dam' good work cleaning water

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ScienceDaily A PinP photo. Beavers could help clean up polluted rivers and stem the loss of valuable soils from farms, new research shows.   More here.

Has Canada made itself vulnerable to a catastrophe on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon?

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NATIONAL OBSERVER An investigation by Joel Ballard indicates there is reason to believe that's exactly what Canada has done. More here. The Deepwater Horizon.  Photo by the US Coast Guard.

China-backed Sumatran dam threatens the rarest ape in the world

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TheConversation The plan to build a massive hydropower dam in Sumatra as part of China’s immense  Belt and Road Initiative  threatens the habitat of the rarest ape in the world, which has only 800 remaining members. More here. Photo by   Tim Laman