Shipping frenzy threatens Indigenous food security
Arctic shipping and the noise and environmental pollution left in its wake are driving narwhals and other animals farther away from those who depend on them.
Pond Inlet
Inuit warn ‘rock concert’ of noise from ships is hurting Arctic wildlife
Calls grow for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise pollution as melting ice opens up shipping routes.
Canada's Arctic is on thin ice, making transportation treacherous
Andrew Arreak says travelling on the ice — the main highway in Canada's Arctic — provides access to the land and food, connects communities and is part of Inuit identity.
Inuit fear Arctic mine expansion could hasten narwhal decline
Inuit hunters fear an upcoming ruling on an Arctic mine expansion could hasten the ongoing decline of a narwhal population that they rely on for food.
There are more than 60 words to describe sea ice in Inuktitut
Nunavut researchers turn to citizen scientists.
Nunavut reporting what may be territory's first COVID-19 case
Nunavut is reporting what may be its first case of COVID-19.
Ottawa to address growing COVID-19 threat to First Nations, Inuit communities
The federal government will be under pressure today, May 1, 2020, to explain what it's doing to prevent COVID-19 from spreading like wildfire through First Nations reserves and remote Inuit communities in the North.
It was pitch black, they had fallen through the ice
For Keith Morrison, the consequences of this fall's extraordinarily warm weather across the North all came down to an urgent call for help.
'So many bears:' Draft plan says Nunavut polar bear numbers unsafe
There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn't yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking.