Issues affecting circumpolar nations
Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published research.
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The government of the Northwest Territories and the Tłı̨chǫ government are planning to give more training to people interested in harvesting
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The Canadian government will invest $3.2 million in the Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area in the Canadian province of
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To help respond to climate change, the federal and territorial governments are putting nearly $27 million into retrofitting public buildings
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Gwich’in leaders in Yukon and the Northwest Territories are calling on opponents of oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife
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The Milne Ice Shelf in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut has collapsed, and was the last fully intact ice
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Indigenous leaders in the Northest Territories and northern Alberta are “angry” about a joint decision by the federal government and
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The Arctic Ocean is not as salty as it used to be — and now researchers say climate change is
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They’re perfectly round and hard as, well, rock — and they’re littering Canada’s Arctic shore. Eerily round rocks can be
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A longtime resident of Watson Lake, Yukon, has contributed to the world of science — simply by taking a picture. This
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Listen to the full episode of What on Earth (27:00) Among the most unsettling images of 2020 — next to the
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A Nunavut regulator has given mining company Agnico Eagle a “significant rebuke” over a controversial pipeline proposal for the Meliadine
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The beluga whale harvest out of Aklavik, in the Northwest Territories, is down but not out. From a high of
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The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are driving changes in Arctic waters in more complex ways than previously recorded and are
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A collective of wildlife co-management boards and governments in the Northwest Territories has come out with a strategy to revitalize
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