Inuit sound alarm after UN biodiversity talks: ‘Stop conflating Indigenous Peoples with local communities’
After the inaugural meeting of a new UN biodiversity body in Panama City last week, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
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Author: Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Alaska Ambler Road project back in focus as company outlines vision for work ahead
From Scandinavia to Siberia to the North American Arctic, a push is underway to secure new supplies of minerals central
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NYC’s MoMA adds artwork by Nunavut artist Shuvinai Ashoona to collection
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has acquired two drawings by acclaimed Nunavut artist Shuvinai Ashoona, marking
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As COP30 nears, new report warns of ‘irreversible’ polar ice loss
As world leaders prepare to meet in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 environmental conference on Monday, a new report warns
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Polar oceans growing more chaotic as planet warms, with impacts for undersea life: study
Most people have heard how melting sea ice and warming oceans are impacting polar environments, but a new study has
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From MMIWG in U.S. & Canada, to Greenland’s IUD scandal, Inuit women’s summit says ‘no more’
From Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, to this year’s Danish and Greenlandic government apologies
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Report calls for community-based approach to elder care in Nunavut
Keeping Nunavut Elders close to home is at the centre of a new report released this week by Pairijiit Tigummiaqtikkut,
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Nunavik eyes post-secondary education rooted in Inuit culture and offering Western credentials
Education rooted in Inuit culture — but offering recognized Western credentials and based in the North — are among the
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How the Arctic has been ‘pushed & triggered’ into climate extremes: paper
As the Arctic warms at an unprecedented rate, a new scientific review outlines how events once considered rare — from
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Net-Zero Framework for int’l shipping shelved for a year after U.S. led-pushback
After a week of high-stakes debate and U.S.-led opposition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) voted on Friday for a one-year
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IMO set for landmark vote on shipping emissions as Washington threatens reprisals
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is meeting in London this week for what could be a turning point in global
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Grounded cargo ship successfully refloated in Canadian Arctic: company
A Dutch-flagged ship has successfully been refloated after being stranded in Canada’s Arctic archipelago for over five weeks. “Wagenborg is
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Safeguards in place, but still stranded: New details on efforts to free Thamesborg before freeze-up
On paper, the European shipping company that sent the Thamesborg cargo vessel through the Northwest Passage did everything right: the
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Melting Arctic could create shipping superhighway… and a surge in emissions: study
As the Arctic warms and sea ice retreats, once-impassable waters at the top of the globe will increasingly open to
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Canada green-lights company’s plan to salvage stranded Arctic ship
Canadian authorities have given the go-ahead to Royal Wagenborg’s salvage plan to free their cargo ship stranded in the Arctic
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