🟣 How Arctic Residents Think: Results From the Second Annual Canadian Arctic Survey 📝 This online conference will make public the results of a survey conducted with 650 residents of the Canadian Arctic. Join us September 21 for this online only event 💻>>> bit.ly/4gyRcPi

'Immense irony' as Iran conflict fuels 'boom' in renewable power - UN climate chief EV sales surging, solar installs soar in UK, govts cite the crisis in clean power announcements Crisis is accelerating trends, but they are "not universal"- @adambell.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/immens...

'Immense irony' as Iran war fuels 'boom' in renewable power - UN climate chief

Oil and gas prices have soared as the conflict in Iran chokes off about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies and spreads misery.

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Check out my new article! It argues that the rise of continental drift should be understood within the context of the geopolitical shift that came from decolonization. lmk if you can't access! #histsci #STS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Geology as geopolitics: continental drift and the southern hemisphere

This article argues that the mid-twentieth-century acceptance of continental drift cannot be understood solely as the result of new geophysical eviden…

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"You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs." - @jessedjenkins.com

Disturbing instance in Yukon of mining approval granted without consent of Kaska First Nations. The Kaska have a good record in the courts, tho, so don’t count them out yet. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Kudz Ze Kayah mine project in Yukon approved again, while First Nation blasts decision | CBC News

The Yukon and federal governments have given the go-ahead to a contentious mine project near Ross River, despite strong opposition from local First Nations.

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In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

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How has your scholarship been impacted by a decision not to travel to the United States? Want to write about it for our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series? niche-canada.org/2026/02/26/p... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

Pushing Back, Building Bridges - A Renewed Call for "Tracking the Effects"

Collecting stories of resistance, both historical and actual, that relate to environmental history or environmental historians.

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Forbes@forbes.com · 6mo ago

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

#newarticle Multi-Level Governance for Renewable Energy Development in Nunavut: The Role of Community Consultation and Inuit Knowledge, by Anna Soer @annasoer.bsky.social doi.org/10.22584/nr5... #RenewableEnergy #CommunityConsultation #InuitKnowledge #EnergySecurity #ContentAnalysis #Nunavut

#NewIssue No. 59 is a special issue: New Frontiers in Northern Economic Development, with partial support from #CanNor #CanadianNorthernEconomicDevelopmentAgency Thanks to Yukon artists Copper Caribou for the gorgeous cover, "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)" doi.org/10.22584/nr5... coppercaribou.com

Andrew Coyne in the Globe and Mail lays it out. "Annexation may not be on the table. But the idea that Canada must be tamed, subdued, brought to heel – reduced, in other words, to a vassal state – is very much part of MAGA thinking. We have become a problem, in need of a solution."

Opinion: MAGA’s plan for Canada: not annexation, but dismemberment

A new defence think tank argues we are a problem in need of a solution – and the solutions are insane

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So true. And in Alberta, this policing has led to young women refusing to confirm their "biological sex" as a precondition to playing sports. Which has led to - guess what? Decreased participation of girls in sport, completely undermining the purported objective of the UCP. #abpoli

Dale Smith@journodale.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A reminder that policing trans women out of sports just creates an interminable witch hunt for all other women in sport.

Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people "Newly declassified documents obtained by CBC Indigenous confirm that the RCMP infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MvU... #cdnhist

Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people

YouTube video by CBC Indigenous

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"Poor countries may lose 10 times more people to deaths from high temperatures than rich ones, according to an analysis by Climate Impact Lab." (Bloomberg Green Newsletter)

However, as Zeke notes, 2023 started off similarly, yet it far exceeded warming expectations (and broke the record at that time). That could have been the result of a strong El Niño coming after a triple-dip Niña, but there is still uncertainty around this. Where will 2026 end up?

This woman is a QUEEN. But also, did you know. A lot of Natural History scientific illustrators in the 19th century, were usually partners and wives of famous male academics. Buckland, Lyell, Mantell, Murchinson, Gould etc. Their academic output was carried by their (invisible) wives.

We Need To Stop With The "Women Didn't Work" Myth

YouTube video by Karolina Żebrowska

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Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

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I'm happy to share a recently published article with Will Greaves, where we present an original dataset of 164 public opinion polls across the Arctic from 2007-2024 that illustrates the fragmentation of the Arctic into two distinct blocs. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Can't Stop, Won't Stop. Renewables generated what is equivalent to more than a QUARTER of US Electricity needs last year.

"Greenland should be in the news because climate change is disrupting the key role it plays in the world’s climate system and in influencing sea level, with consequences for the livelihoods and lives of billions of people around the globe."

Eye on the Arctic - Regard sur l'Arctique@eyeonthearctic.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Trump's designs on Greenland have dominated headlines for weeks. But meanwhile, the Arctic island just recorded its warmest January ever. Blogger Irene Quaile breaks down the latest climate news that's getting overlooked. www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...

It should be against the law to operate a business and not have a clear mechanism to talk to a real human being when you need to.

"But he didn't know" okay, great, but did he speak out against an overtly sexist, racist power broker, or did he accept the invitations and the money? Because this culture doesn't just happen. It's created by the consent of the people who have access to those spaces. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM

In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

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🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/icel...

Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU

A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

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i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 7mo ago

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Yet Gaza and Venezuela also demonstrate the intrinsic instability of such a coercive order. The Trump doctrine seeks control in a world that resists domination. By substituting coercion for consent, it multiplies the very crises it ostensibly aims to end. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Path to the Trump Doctrine

From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.

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The #BBNJ Agreement could strengthen biodiversity protection in the Central Arctic Ocean. However, scientists warn that existing legal frameworks, weak enforcement and competing national interests may limit its impact in one of the ocean’s most politically complex regions. @annasoer.bsky.social

The Central Arctic Ocean and the BBNJ Agreement: potential and limitations

The signature of an international agreement to manage biodiversity beyond national jurisdictions (BBNJ Agreement) raised questions about its applicability in the Arctic region in general and the Ce...

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New paper just dropped. I helped out a bit. Polar bear visits to human infrastructure increase with sea ice loss, not poor body condition. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The US wants to establish supply chains for critical minerals free of Chinese control. Threatening Greenland will isolate the US from the very partners it needs to achieve this.

If Trump wants 2026 to be a year of critical minerals collaboration, he must stop imperialist rhetoric on Greenland

The US wants to establish supply chains for critical minerals free of Chinese control. Disrespecting sovereignty and international law will isolate the country from the partners it needs to achieve th...

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"I argue that this visual regime of Arctic melt itself is performative. It produces a kind of slow violence—not through physical destruction, but through infrastructural oversight and the erasure of context and nuance." - Audrey Medaino-Tardif niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v... #envhum #arctic

Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic

The Arctic is melting. In the visual culture of the Arctic and environmental research, melt is affective. It is treated as an object of aesthetic and study, a symbol of urgency. Most prevalent images ...

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It's finally happening. The Swedish prime minister just announced that a pan-European force is arriving in #Greenland as we speak. No word yet on whether UK forces are among them.