Parks Canada battles Arctic ice to explore crumbling Franklin expedition wreck
Parks Canada may be in a race against time to research the HMS Erebus as rough Arctic weather conditions badly
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Northwest Passage
Canada’s Inuit make voices heard on Arctic shipping routes
For the first time, Inuit communities are making recommendations to the Canadian government about how they want ships to move
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Alaska drilling, China, and the Arctic Council handover to Iceland : Northern news to watch for in 2019
All year long, Eye on the Arctic brings you news, and newsmakers, from around the North. But as 2019 gets
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Tragedies in hamlet in Arctic Canada sparking talk of a Franklin ‘curse’
Some residents of an Arctic hamlet located near the Franklin shipwrecks have linked a spate of tragic deaths in the
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Blog – Franklin expedition: How a doomed Arctic voyage presaged transpolar flights
Last month, I flew from Los Angeles to Hong Kong on one of those sleek jets that fuse heaven and
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Inuit and Ottawa reach agreement in principle on marine conservation area in Northwest Passage
The federal government and the Inuit have reached another milestone in creating Canada’s largest marine conservation area in the northeastern
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First Canadian and Inuit-owned artifacts from Franklin wreck revealed to public
9 artifacts jointly owned by Canada and the Inuit Heritage Trust were revealed to the world Tuesday. Nine artifacts from
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Interview – Hair samples from Franklin expedition member show high lead levels
When Sir John Franklin left Britain with two ships and 129 sailors in 1845, it was to be an epic
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Small community in Arctic Canada disappointed by cruise ship cancellations, says mayor
The cancellation of two luxury cruise ships that were supposed to land in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), this week is
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Roald Amundsen’s Maud back home 100 years after setting sail from Norway
One hundred years after a wooden ship set sail from Norway with the hopes of reaching the North Pole, the
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World Wildlife Fund raises alarm about harmful ‘grey water’ in Canada’s Arctic
World Wildlife Fund Canada fears a new report it commissioned suggests that untreated “grey water” dumped in Canadian Arctic waters could double by
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World’s first round-the-Arctic luxury cruise could set sail in 2020
Luxury cruise ship will next summer sail from Nome to Tromsø via the Northern Sea Route and then to Newfoundland
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Which marine mammal is most vulnerable to Arctic vessels?
As the open-water season becomes longer in the Arctic, little is known about how increasing vessel traffic affects marine mammals,
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World maritime body approves first Arctic ship routing measures
The International Maritime Organization approved on Friday the first internationally recognized ship routing measures designed jointly by Russia and the
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Blog – How Northwestern Inuit led construction of Canada’s highway to Arctic Ocean
Last November, Canada’s first highway to the Arctic Ocean opened. When shovels broke ground on the all-weather road in January
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