Obama, oil drilling and injustice in Canada’s North: Arctic Week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this
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Blog: Arctic oil and gas must stay in ground to restrict warming to 2°C says study
Scientists have realized for some time now that the extraction of fossil fuels must dramatically slow down if the global
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Blog: The evolving role of regions in Arctic governance
An interesting thing happened last Fall as the US prepared for its upcoming Arctic Council chairmanship. The Alaska Arctic Policy
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Arctic Council, indigenous issues, energy – 2014 Arctic Year in Review (Part 1)
With the year drawing to a close, Eye on the Arctic is looking back at this year’s news and events
Read moreTHE REBEL – Jutai Toonoo
Artists often say they create art for themselves and don’t care what other people think. But when Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn tracked down Jutai Toonoo working in Nunavut’s Kinngait Studios in 2010, we got the sense that he really, really meant it.
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Blog: A look at Greenland’s upcoming parliamentary elections
On November 28, Greenlanders will go to the polls to vote in a general election for the second time in
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Walrus and moose, salmon and berries: It’s Thanksgiving in Western Alaska
BETHEL — Across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Wednesday, the turkeys were thawing – and so was the moose and walrus,
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Canadian senator proposes nation-wide “seal products day”
A Canadian Senator wants to promote Inuit, and other community seal hunting here in Canada, in light of the ongoing
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Is social media contributing to wildlife decline in Canada’s Arctic?
New warnings are being made about using social media to sell wildlife meat and fish online. On a Nunavut Territory
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Feature Interview: The environmental and social impacts of Arctic tourism
The changing Arctic climate has opened up business and economic opportunities in everything from resource development to shipping. Arctic tourism
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Blog: Violence and public health in the North – What about the men?
Much ink has been spilled in Canada the past month on the merits of a federal inquiry on missing and
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Feature interview: ‘Gamifying’ Inuit art
A video game development company based in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, has been working for two years on bringing
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Feature Interview: Arctic Economic Council raises environmental concerns
Canada’s Arctic Council chairmanship has garnered mixed reviews. The Arctic Economic Council (AEC), a Canadian initiative that would have northern
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Feature Interview: What Prime Minister’s northern tours tell us about Canada’s shifting Arctic priorities
Canada’s prime minster Stephen Harper wrapped up a six-day tour to the country’s Far North earlier this week. Marked with
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Archeologists uncover Inuit driftwood house in Canada’s western Arctic
For archaeologists and anthropologists, it’s an extremely exciting and rare find. They have begun work on a rare site of
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