When Manitoba filmmaker Christopher Paetkau embarked on a research journey to study the effects of climate change in the high Arctic, he never expected those same effects to thwart the very mission he was there to document. The scientists hoped to use the icebreaker, Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen, for part of a 133-day expedition to study the changes in the region. "The Amundsen is Canada's primary research vessel going into the high Arctic and studying the effects of climate change up there. So when you lose a leg or you lose time or you lose anything, it has impacts not only on the science but on the scientists," Paetkau said in an interview with CBC's Weekend Morning . "You're dealing with ice, you're dealing with cold water, you're dealing with Canada, and we all know what that can throw at you."

Source: CBC News January 21, 2018 19:07 UTC