FUNDING RENEWED FOR ARCTIC CLIMATE RESEARCH LAB

Canada’s High Arctic research station is being given at least a two- year reprieve as the federal government steps up with new funding. Science Minister Kirsty Duncan says $1.6 million will be provided to keep the Polar Environmental Atmospheric Research Laboratory, or PEARL, running until the fall of 2019. Scientists were alarmed when self- avowed science lover Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed to use the 2017 budget to renew the Climate Change and Atmospheric Research funding, which expires at the end of the year. PEARL, one of six projects funded through the program, is on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, about 1,100 kilometres from the North Pole, and is used by scientists to research ozone depletion, pollution, and climate changes in the Arctic.