A new centre in Nunavut to treat trauma and addictions
Nunavut breaks ground on new trauma and addiction treatment centre. Located in Iqaluit and designed by Inuit, it will provide therapies based on Inuit culture.
Nunavut breaks ground on new trauma and addiction treatment centre. Located in Iqaluit and designed by Inuit, it will provide therapies based on Inuit culture.
As polar bears walk across snow and ice, they leave tiny skin particles in their paw prints, which a University of Idaho research team used to identify individual bears based on genetic analysis.
Wildfires continue to rage across Canada, forcing the evacuation of several cities. The Northwest Territories are particularly hard hit as is the boreal forest.
The population of narwhals in East Greenland is far from stable, according to scientists, yet the Greenlandic government aims to maintain the annual hunting quota of 50 animals for 2024.
An agreement allowing the Inuvialuit to administer the offshore oil and gas resources of their territories has just been signed.
PanArctic Vision is the Arctic equivalent of the world’s largest music competition and aims to strengthen Arctic culture and diversity
Microplastics ingested by whales, dolphins and seals do not necessarily remain in their digestive tract or are excreted but can enter the fatty tissue of various body parts or even the lungs.
The ship, currently under construction, will be Japan’s first icebreaking research vessel in the Arctic and will be operated by Japanese MOL group.
Researchers have just developed a new method for studying the extent of pack ice, using fiber optic lines – an ingenious idea that uses accessible technology in an inaccessible region.
The Government of Québec will grant Nunavik C$ 3.5 million to deal with the impacts of climate change and mitigate its effects.
In the 1970s, the geographer Bent Hasholt wanted to conduct research that mattered to society – so he started calculating rainfall in his free time.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation plays a crucial role for the global climate. But since the early 2000s, it has been weakening, and there is growing concern about a possible collapse of the circulation system.
The government of Greenland is aiming for food self-sufficiency with greater production of Greenlandic raw materials. With a first step, the local production of potatoes.
An extensive study shows that the gestation period of Bowhead whales may last 23 months. So far, a 14-month pregnancy has been assumed.
Alaska Maritime Heritage Preservation Program is open to funding projects by museums, others
Soon, the entire world will be able to listen live to the unique Arctic underwater sounds in Greenland’s Disko Bay: Starting next spring, an acoustic monitoring station near Qeqertarsuaq will record the sounds of marine mammals.
A drone developed in part in Switzerland can both sail and fly, allowing it to monitor Arctic wildlife with less distraction.
Thawing permafrost soils pose an immense source of ancient pathogens. Researchers have now concluded that such “time-traveling” pathogens pose a potential threat to present-day biological communities, as well as to humans.
Plants and animals have to adapt year after year to an increasingly unpredictable spring, a new study shows.
In line with its business model and the decarbonization of the shipping industry, Latitude Blanche is renovating its vessel to meet expectations of both the environmental policies of the International Maritime Organization and a more demanding clientele.
Tracking changes in permafrost can take years and sometimes decades, lags that cannot keep up with the transformations in the rapidly warming Arctic. Now scientists will be developing new technology to track those changes in real time, thanks to a project funded by Google.
Arctic terns, which fly from pole to pole and back again every year, may be able to compensate for some of the climate change impacts they face outside the breeding season.
Vegetation traces found in an ice core taken nearly 60 years ago in the far north-west corner of Greenland suggest that the ice sheet had largely melted over 400,000 years ago.
Design studio “Malakhit” is working on a project for an Arctic subaquatic energy module (SEM) to delivery energy to isolated places along the Arctic coastline