Four supply stations are set up around Iqaluit on community cleanup days to hand out gloves, garbage bags and other supplies. Martha Lenio, left, who works for WWF-Canada, volunteered at the booth outside of Iqaluit’s City Hall, alongside summer student Brenda Anderson, who is seen here holding up a neck warmer participants can nab for free. (Photo by Mélanie Ritchot)
Community cleanup volunteers and other go-getters are picking up litter one bag at a time
With summer on its way to the Arctic, geese have returned to Nunavut, sealifts will soon be on their way stocked with supplies, purple saxifrage is blooming — and garbage is being uncovered by the melting snow.
People living in hamlets that were in the path of a 2017 tsunami have known that an even bigger wave could be in their future. New calculations suggest previous estimates of its size were too low.