Canada must act now to welcome displaced Arctic researchers

If Canada steps up now, we don’t just help individual scientists and express solidarity with them—we reaffirm our values as a country that believes in knowledge, equity, and the future of our shared planet.

Researchers with the NASA-funded ICESCAPE mission examine melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean in July 2011. As U.S.-based studies in the Arctic are curtailed, the nation risks losing its capacity to anticipate and respond to the myriad of urgent environmental, geopolitical, and societal challenges emerging in the North.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Opinion

BY PHILIPPE ARCHAMBAULT, CHRISTINE BARNARD, JOANNA HOSA

May 8, 2025

Across the United States, Arctic scientists are facing a mounting crisis as their work is increasingly undermined by severe funding cuts and a growing climate of political hostility. These pressures are not just bureaucratic inconveniences—they represent a broader erosion ...

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