Climate change does ‘weird things’ to Canada’s Arctic glaciers: expert
Scientists studying how climate change affects Arctic glaciers are increasingly seeing some “weird things happening,” says a Canadian researcher. University
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Author: Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Sustainable Arctic fishery monitoring gets powerful digital tool with Global Fishing Watch
Proponents of developing sustainable fishery in the Arctic got a powerful new tool today with the launch of the Global Fishing
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Arctic hamlet set to celebrate historic discovery of second Franklin expedition shipwreck
Residents of Gjoa Haven, a tiny Inuit hamlet in the Canadian Arctic, and the crew of a research vessel that
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Sir John Franklin’s long-lost HMS Terror found: The Guardian
HMS Terror, one of Sir John Franklin’s two ships lost in the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition, has been found in “in
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U.S. spy agency to release high-resolution 3-D maps of the entire Arctic
Following the public release of super-detailed 3-D topographic maps of Alaska last week, the United States government plans to gradually
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Arctic sea ice nears its minimum extent for 2016
Average sea ice extent for August 2016 was 5.6 million square kilometers (2.16 million square miles), the fourth lowest August
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Greenpeace report on sustainable development in Nunavut lacks substance: expert
A recent Greenpeace-commissioned report outlining a roadmap for sustainable development in Nunavut is a good first step but it still
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Canadian Rangers to get new rifles, ditch WWII era Lee Enfields
Canadian Rangers will finally be able to shelf their dependable but old Lee Enfield rifles in favour of a modern
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323 Norwegian reindeer killed by lightning strike ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’: expert
A herd of Norwegian reindeer killed in the deadliest lightning strike ever seen by scientists were likely in the wrong
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Greenpeace report calls on Nunavut to shun resource development in favour of sustainable projects
Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut has an unprecedented opportunity for demonstrating to the world what sustainable development looks like in
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Arctic community plugs in solar and star power in fight against climate change and seismic testing
The tiny Inuit hamlet of Clyde River in the Canadian Arctic is turning to star and solar power to highlight
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Arsenic contamination persists in Yellowknife lake a decade after gold mine shut: study
A tiny subarctic lake near Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories still contains high levels of arsenic years after gold
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Canadian military trains to respond to Arctic earthquake
The Canadian military and other branches of government are training to respond to an earthquake in a remote Arctic community
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Closure of Canada’s only deep-water Arctic port ‘shocking’
The chorus of concern over the sudden closure of Canada’s only deep-water Arctic port continues to grow as politicians, trade
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Canadian icebreaker sets sail to shore up elusive North Pole claim
A Canadian icebreaker is setting sail Friday to collect scientific information to support Canada’s submission on the extended continental shelf
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