Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Eye on the Arctic

Eye on the Arctic

Issues affecting circumpolar nations

  • Countries
    • Canada
    • Denmark/Greenland
    • Finland
    • Iceland
    • Norway
    • Russia
    • Sweden
    • USA
  • Categories
    • Environment
    • Politics
    • Society
    • Science
    • Business
    • Art and Culture
  • Longforms
  • Video Reports
  • Regard sur l’Arctique

* Featured *

Environment Featured • Zone 3 News Newsroom Picks • zone 3 

Report confirms heat records in Europe and Arctic, but war-fuelled energy crisis boosts renewables and embattled climate

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, May 1, 2026 at 09:53 — Last Updated: Friday, May 1, 2026 at 13:20
0 Comments

As the European State of the Climate Report confirms Europe is the fastest-warming continent and the Arctic the fastest warming

Read more
Featured • Zone 2 Society Society (Canada) 

Black-Inuk woman traces history of Black settlers in the North in pursuit of answers to racial divisions today

CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 1, 2026 at 09:29
0 Comments

By Samuel Wat Jaelyn Jarrett remembers moving from Nain, N.L., to Ontario as an eight-year-old when she started being called

Read more
* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 Society (Canada) 

UQAM updates its website for northern research

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 14:09
0 Comments

The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) has launched the latest version of its Northern Portal (Portail nordique), a platform

Read more
Featured • Zone 3 News 

Arctic oil hub tanker “disappears” from the map

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 13:17
0 Comments

A 346-metre-long tanker that serves as a key hub for Russian Arctic oil exports has effectively “disappeared” from ship tracking

Read more
Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 

Prepare for another challenging wildfire season, N.W.T. fire officials say

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:39
0 Comments

By Heather Kitching Fire officials in the Northwest Territories are warning people to prepare for another challenging wildfire season due

Read more
* Featured * Canada Countries General Society Society (Canada) 

Yukon Quest sled dog race returning in 2027, organizers say

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 16:15
0 Comments

The Yukon Quest sled dog race is set to make a comeback next year, organizers say, after the iconic race

Read more
Featured • Zone 3 Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

Great Northern Arts Festival organizers looking ahead after funding turned down

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 10:31
0 Comments

A major arts festival in Inuvik has been slowly coming back over the last few years, but organizers of the

Read more
* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General 

Naujaat hunters want to halt the Baffinland’s railway and port project

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 11:56
0 Comments

Arviq HTO, Naujaat’s hunters and trapper’s organization, wants the federal government to halt the Steensby railway project so it can

Read more
* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Society Society (Finland) 

Lapland college launches wilderness guide training in English

Yle News
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2026 at 14:49
0 Comments

Lappia Vocational College is launching the first-ever English-language training course for wilderness and nature guides in Finnish Lapland. The professional

Read more
* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Society Society (Canada) 

Nunavik joins Indigenous push for banishment of traffickers

CBC News
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2026 at 14:18
0 Comments

Leaders in Nunavik are exploring the idea of banishment as a way to stop the flow of drugs and alcohol

Read more
* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Politics Politics (Russia) 

Shadow tanker that broke Cuba fuel blockade loads Arctic crude in Murmansk

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2026 at 13:44
0 Comments

Ship tracking data shows that the 250-metre-long tanker on 27 April crossed the Norwegian–Russian maritime boundary and proceeded towards Kola

Read more
A building is seen with flags outside and a sculpture.
Featured • Zone 3 General Society 

Nunavut RCMP now investigating August death as homicide

CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 16:02
0 Comments

Nunavut RCMP now say they’re treating the death of a man in Iqaluit last August as a homicide. Mosesie ‘Levi’

Read more
Aerial view of a white, frozen river winding through a snowy landscape.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

N.W.T. gov’t hopes for ‘rebound’ in spring water levels this year on Mackenzie River

CBC News
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 10:57
0 Comments

By Yumna Iftikhar Heavy winter snowpack to the south could help bring the Mackenzie River closer to normal this summer

Read more
FSB in Murmansk.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics (Russia) Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Russia 

FSB major general V. Shchemelinin appointed to chief position at Russia’s border

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 09:42 — Last Updated: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 10:50
0 Comments

The senior officer, who has been accused by Ukrainian military intelligence of involvement in criminal activities on European territory, has

Read more
A tent on snow-covered barren land with northern lights dancing in the sky at night.
* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Featured • Zone 1 Newsroom Picks • zone 3 Politics (Canada) 

Square dances and cell signal dead zones: Rangers confront Canada’s Arctic reality

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 16:48
0 Comments

By Murray Brewster It’s safe to say learning to square dance with strangers was not on the list of expectations

Read more
  • ← Previous
  • Next →

Feature

Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Also on RCI (Chinese)

体验加拿大之北极光下 • Experiencing Canada

Also on RCI (Spanish)

Nunavut in spanish

Also on CBC

CBC North
RCI • Radio Canada International
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

RCI

  • FRANÇAIS
  • ENGLISH
  • ESPAÑOL
  • 中文
  • العربية

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RCI | Facebook
  • RCI | Twitter

Resources

  • RADIO-CANADA
    • Conditions d’utilisation
    • Ombudsman
  • CBC
    • Impact and Accountability
    • Ombudsperson
Copyright © 2026 Eye on the Arctic. All rights reserved.
Theme: ColourMag by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.