Snow Snaking and Alaskan High Kick: The Arctic Winter Games 2024 are over
Alaska and Yukon won the medal standings at the 2024 Arctic Winter Games while the Saami and Nunavik trailed behind.
Alaska and Yukon won the medal standings at the 2024 Arctic Winter Games while the Saami and Nunavik trailed behind.
While last week a study dispelled a historical myth about gender differences in size, the link between a historical scandal and the issue of women’s and human rights was discussed in Denmark.
Three new communities in the Eastern Hudson Bay region have been connected to the fibre-optic network, according to an announcement by Hilda Snowball, President of the Kativik region, on Monday.
The Supreme Court of Canada has just upheld the constitutionality of Act C-92, which allows the country’s Indigenous communities to manage their own child and family protection services.
A group of anthropologists were able to confirm that the migration routes among the Nenets have changed in recent years due to mobile antennas in tundra regions.
Four of the eight Arctic nations are among the top five in the world when it comes to equality for the LGBTQI community on a national level.
In Greenland, 25 of the 34 critical raw materials for the energy transition are present in significant quantities, and last Thursday the European Union and this country signed strategic agreements to develop sustainable value chains for the exploitation of these resources.
To prevent people in Greenland from commiting suicide, a researcher travels up and down the country and successfully holds courses for survivors who want to help others taking a similar path to end their lives.
The Arctic Circle Assembly opens in Reykjavik for three days of discussions between those involved in sustainable development in the Arctic Circle. The presence of the French ambassador for the poles reinforces the launch of the One Polar Summit in Paris in November.
The mixed gender of scientific stations raises a number of questions about relations between men and women, issues for which the overwintering staff of the French Polar Institute have been prepared before their departure.
As winter draws to a close, volunteers at the French Polar Institute are threatening their organization and denouncing the precariousness of their Volontariat de Service Civique (VSC) and disproportionate working hours.
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 part of Chile’s constitutional reform and the second phase of drafting a new constitution, the U-Antarctica group of university experts has formulated an amendment on the status of Antarctica.
Svalbard is facing changes on multiple scales. An ethnological study analyzing this process, and the issues that come with it, has just been published.
In Greenland, garbage management is to be improved, especially in remote settlements, using a Greenlandic village as a model.
The Belgian International Polar Foundation and the Trân Family Foundation plan to award and financially support a young company in the Arctic again this year.
Since 2006, an Inuit community in Alaska has been using a platform created by scientists to document how their region is changing
Red Dress Day was held on May 5 in Canada to denounce violence against women.
As the Government of Nunavut reaffirms its commitment to the fight against tuberculosis, a new epidemic is breaking out in this territory largely affected by the disease.
In Antarctica, a new art installation has been erected at the Ukrainian Vernadsky Station. An old fuel tank that was no longer needed was reused for this purpose.
Sled dogs have bitten to death a six-year-old boy in the West Greenland town of Aasiaat. The dogs had been chained at the city’s ski club, he said.
The polar fox transmits rabies to dogs through bites and Canada’s native population is unaware of the risks, notes a study by veterinarians.
Inuit women who are victims of violence or who do not have access to housing are supported by the association Pauktuutit which has just received funding to build 13 emergency shelters and 15 transitional housing units.
Extreme environments, such as the poles, would shape a personality type that confronts rather than avoids hardship.