Geopolitical Tension and Funding Cuts Are Crushing Arctic Wildlife Research

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Decades ago, one of the world’s largest subpopulations of nesting eider ducks spent its summers on tiny Mitivik Island, near the mouth of Hudson Bay. But as concern grew, in the 1990s, over their steep decline globally, the…