Right element, wrong state (Photo: Soloviev) The good news for Iqalummiut is that officials in Nunavut’s capital city do not expect an on-going drinking-water shortage to reach emergency levels ahead of the summer melt. The bad news is that high demand for water that...
To limit, or not to limit, that was this hamlet’s question (Photo: Destination Nunavut) Nunavut’s Liquor Act grants the territory’s 25 hamlets the right to decide for themselves how they want to regulate access to alcohol. Residents are allowed to vote on...
An arc of ice and fire (Map: Frontiers in Earth Science) Predicting volcanic eruptions is not a perfect science, but it is a science nonetheless. Improved sensing equipment and a better understanding of how volcanoes work has made volcanic activity if not predictable...
Polar Sea, food (Photo: Kevin McGwin) Ever since America’s coastguard accepted that its icebreaker fleet is on its last legs, its focus has been on repairing the one that it has while it awaits delivery of the first of its replacements. The other option, putting one...
Between 1966 and 1975, Danish health authorities working in Greenland implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs), a form of contraception, in half of Greenland’s 9,000 women of childbearing age. Few of the women or their parents (some of those undergoing the process were...