Author Glenn M Stein is a polar and maritime historian and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society © supplied In Victorian England, the exploration of the Arctic was somewhat akin to modern dayefforts to explore the moon and space. Distant, barren,… »
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Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Q&A: What’s at stake for the Arctic at COP21?
All eyes are on the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris. As part of our Eye on the Arctic coverage, we’ve been talking to northern indigenous leaders across Canada about the social and economic consequences of climate change… »
Greenhouse gas: corporate reporting sketchy, difficult to compare
World leaders have gathered in Paris to discuss the interconnected issues of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and climate change and to seek ways to reduce those emissions. An often discussed solution involes carbon taxes, and carbon trading but to… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Global warming, mining, and toxic threats
Even as climate talks take place in Paris, global warming has an effect on a particular situation that could involve toxic poisoning of the drinking water of a good part of an entire nation. At a high altitude in the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Society
Water problems need local solutions: new book
Rather than seeing the world’s water problem as one global crisis, author and journalist Marq de Villiers prefers to break it down and suggests there are solutions best taken up locally. His view is outlined in a new book called… »
Canada’s premier football event: The Grey Cup!
All this weekend a huge number of parties and celebrations have been going on in the western city of Winnipeg Manitoba. Today is marks the 103rd edition of the final match up and culmination of the Canadian Football League (CFL)… »
International, Politics, Society
Containing Russia-Turkey tensions
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia November 24, 2015. Speaking before a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Putin called Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
COP21: View from Nunavut, Canada
On the occasion of the United Nations climate change conference in Paris (November 30- December 11), Eye on the Arctic has been speaking with different indigenous leaders from across Canada’s North. In this interview series we explore how climate change is affecting… »
International, Politics, Society
Canada’s Iraq conundrum
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised a lot of eyebrows when just hours after the bloody attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and turned the world’s attention squarely on fighting ISIS, he stuck by his election promise to not only… »
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