Arctic Sea Ice Tracker Suspends Updates After Weird Data Readings. Want to know how Arctic sea ice is doing? For now, you'll have to take a look outside instead of relying on satellite images of the Arctic sea ice extent from the Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center. The NSIDC says the sensor on its F-17 satellite has experienced "difficulties," so it's temporarily suspended its sea ice series "until further notice." Nunatsiaq Online

Nunavut Still Leads in Victimization Rates for Spousal Violence. Rates of spousal violence in Canada's territories, including Nunavut, remain much higher than in the rest of the country, especially for Aboriginal residents, according to new data released April 27 by Statistics Canada. The study, called Criminal Victimization in the Territories, 2014, reveals that about 12 per cent of residents in Nunavut, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories reported being victims of spousal violence between 2009 and 2014. Nunatsiaq Online

US Secretary Sally Jewell: 'We Will Have Climate Refugees.' Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the key to dealing with climate change in the Arctic is to have "real conversations" with the Inuit peoples who live there. But Sally Jewell, the U.S. secretary of the interior, has a much blunter assessment, arguing climate impacts are already underway, can't be turned around and that moving some Arctic communities may be the only solution. Maclean's

Will Moose Thrive or Die Because of Climate Change? Lee Kantar lost two moose calves this past weekend. They are just a few among many calves that did not survive their first year in the forests of Maine. Kantar, a moose biologist for the state's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, has only been tracking calves for a few years but early death is a trend he and others can see across the animal's southern range, which stretches through the northern U.S. and Canada. Scientists speculate that young and adult moose alike are plagued by new diseases and parasites. Brain worm and winter ticks, for example, are both worsening as the climate warms. In Maine at least 50 percent of the calves do not live to see their second year. In northeastern Minnesota that number is as high as 90 percent; in the northwestern part of that state the moose population has disappeared. Scientific America 

Russians Choose Chinese Explorers for Arctic Oil. While a flotilla of seismic vessels lie idle in nearby Norway, a Russian oil company has hired the China Oilfield Services Ltd (COSL) for its seismic operations in the Barents Sea. The ship Hai Yang Shi You 720 this week docked in Kirkenes, the Norwegian border town. It will spend the whole summer in the Russian part of the Barents Sea doing seismic mapping "This is a good illustration of the increasingly close relationship between Russia and China," Anton Romanov, General Manager of shipping agent Henriksen Shipping Services (HSS) says to the Barents Observer. Alaska Dispatch News