Arctic

Nunavut RCMP are considering whether to use body cameras as tension grows between police officers and the largely Inuit communities they serve.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds against the backdrop of the climate crisis, concerns have resurfaced over the Arctic's possible role in virus transmission.

Ottawa's plans to respond to possible COVID-19 outbreaks in remote, fly-in and already vulnerable Indigenous communities are getting a failing grade from opposition politicians who say they display a troubling misunderstanding of the needs and conditions in these areas.

Varieties of corn, beans and squash seen as central to Cherokee identity will be deposited in Norway’s Svalbard seed bank

Two long-range Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear missiles buzzed Canadian airspace on Friday, January 31, 2020, morning, the North American Aerospace Defence Command said, days after a senior military officer warned that North America's early-warning system is outdated.

A national organization representing Inuit women in Canada is calling for a radical shift in the way police work is done in the North.

As of Jan. 1, Canada is enforcing a new UN-backed cap on the amount of sulphur allowed in heavy fuel oil in the waters north of the 60th parallel.

2019 was a wild year for the climate — and the English lexicon.

As Canada's first stand-alone minister of northern affairs, Dan Vandal says he'll be working closely with other ministers to get things done for Canada's North.

“The impacts of a changing Arctic are not confined to those who live there,” researchers wrote in the 14th annual Arctic Report Card.

Scientists attending a national gathering of Arctic researchers are outlining a widening range of climate change risks for so-called "sentinel" species, such as ringed seals and beluga whales, which have sustained Inuit for millennia.

For Keith Morrison, the consequences of this fall's extraordinarily warm weather across the North all came down to an urgent call for help.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is touting his party's climate-change policies in Iqaluit today, October 8, 2019, the first party leader to go to the North in this federal election campaign.

A new University of Calgary study is predicting Russian interference in the federal election campaign to serve what it describes as the Kremlin's long-term interest of competing against Canada in the Arctic.

A well-known environmental campaigner from British Columbia has received a (US)$2 million award from a global organization that supports projects aimed at curbing climate change.