Alison Criscitiello, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta’s Canadian Ice Core Laboratory and author of the new study, drills an ice core from the ice cap of Devon Island, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Photo: Anja Rutishauser With the enforcement of the...
SITUATION UPDATE: Nunavut is again free of COVID-19 infection. The patient, who had tested positive last week, did not have COVID-19 after all. A second test plus a repeat with the original material of the first test showed that the first result had been false...
Nunavut’s Minister of Community and Government Services has signed off on changing Cape Dorset’s name to Kinngait following the results of recent referendums. (Stock photo: Ansgar Walk, WikiCommons CC BY-SA 2.5) Two Nunavut communities will officially...
Canadian communities are widely dispersed and health care in many places is limited to basic cases. The health care system in the Canadian region of Nunavut is an ongoing issue. The approximately 37,000 inhabitants, spread over an area 50 times larger than...
Imagine all of Belgium is on fire and there are almost no people around to fight all the fires. This is roughly the current situation in many Arctic regions of Russia, Canada and Alaska. Since June, hundreds of fires have been blazing in tundra and taiga regions,...
