Climate change is driving the North Water Polynya toward collapse, study finds
A new study finds the critically important area of open water between Greenland and Canada — known to Inuit as Pikialasorsuaq — is changing with "unprecedented speed."
August 18, 2021
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The North Water Polynya, known to Inuit as Pikialasorsuaq, is an area of year-round open water wedged between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere and Devon islands, and it’s a hotspot of biological productivity.
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