Canada’s Arctic is warming faster than expected

Canada has failed to make progress in spite of the increasing urgency by world leaders and scientists who warn that the world is running out of time to keep the Earth’s temperatures within safe limits.

In less than half a century the average annual temperature of the Arctic has warmed by more than 3 C, which is three times as fast as the rest of the planet, writes Diane Beckett.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY Diane Beckett

June 13, 2022

CHURCHILL, MAN.—Hudson Bay, second in size only to the Bay of Bengal, brings the Arctic deep into Canada. I live in Churchill, a tiny community of about 800 on the tundra beside the bay. Churchill is the Polar Bear Capital of the World. In October and November, tourists flock here from around the...

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