2021 was 6th warmest year on record, NASA and NOAA find. Canada definitely felt the heat
Temperature across the planet was roughly 0.84 C above the 20th-century average The numbers are in: Earth is still running
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30–50% of critical northern infrastructure could be at high risk by 2050 due to warming, says study
Thawing permafrost across the circumpolar North is posing an increased risk to transport and transportation infrastructure, and if left unchecked,
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Arctic Canada: COVID-19 continues to spread in Nunavut with 40 new cases
Nunavut’s chief public health officer (CPHO) announced 40 new active cases across the territory, including one in Pond Inlet. There
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Canadian Arctic hunter survives 5-day blizzard, losing both hands to frostbite
Arviat hunter Ernie Eetak survived five days in a blizzard, on the edge of death, and had both hands amputated
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Arctic Canada: Artists portray pandemic through COVID-19 masks
When Eliza Firth thinks of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, she thinks of roses — small, vibrant, in every
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Meet the 3 northerners being named to the Order of Canada
Being named to the Order of Canada is, for one longtime Yellowknifer, made more special by the fact another Indigenous
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Canadian snow carvers to compete at international contest in Sweden
When Anthony Foliot, also known as the Snowking, found out about an international snow carving competition in Sweden last spring,
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33 new Inuvialuit murals to be displayed in communities across Canada’s Northwest Territories
Six N.W.T. communities are about to get more colourful. Thirty-three murals have been commissioned by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC)
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Arctic Report Card 2021: Sea ice changes, rain on Greenland ice sheet among dramatic changes in North
From rain on Greenland’s ice sheet to the browning of the eastern Siberian tundra, climate change is continuing to transform
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Canada’s Northwest Territories prepping for more travel-related COVID cases, say health officials
“We’re getting to the point where the main exposure [in the N.W.T.] will be travel-related’ The N.W.T.’s chief public health officer,
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Ottawa under pressure to collect records from Rome on Indigenous residential schools
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The federal government is under pressure to demand Catholic church entities hand over relevant
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N.W.T.’s Indigenous language program starts to pay off in Canadian Arctic
Susan Peffer says she can have conversations in Inuvialuktun as a result of the N.W.T.’s Mentor-Apprentice Program (MAP). “Every time
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Subsea cable involving Norway could improve internet service in Inuit communities in Canada
Proposal could also help data centres in Labrador export processing power A subsea network that would stretch from northern Canada to
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Inuit leaders call for “unprecedented and massive” action on climate as world leaders gather for COP26
Inuit leaders are calling for concrete and decisive action on climate as world leaders gather in Glasgow, Scotland this weekend
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New government in Nunavut, Canada sees even split of newcomers and returning MLAs
Iqaluit MLAs all have political experience Nunavummiut will see as many familiar faces as new ones in its new territorial government,
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