Pipe dreams: decoding the political debate on shipping oil through Manitoba’s Arctic port
Pierre Poilievre is eyeing the Port of Churchill as a way to increase fossil fuel...
Canada’s Arctic is home to Inuit, Cree, Dene and Innu peoples. It’s also a growing market for tourism. It has a potentially valuable shipping route. It’s a burgeoning source of natural resources like iron, gold, diamonds and copper. It also contains some of the largest intact natural areas in the world.
That’s not to say it is untouched; the Arctic is seeing effects from industrialization all over the world. Pollutants travel to the polar regions in the atmosphere or transported on ocean currents, and it’s experiencing more visible effects of climate change than most other parts of the world.
For weekly updates on our reporting, sign up for The Narwhal’s newsletter.
Pierre Poilievre is eyeing the Port of Churchill as a way to increase fossil fuel...
Connecting to the land through hunting is essential to Inuit culture. Facing rapid changes to...
At the extreme northern tip of the world, a team of scientists battles time and...
Federal scientists say ships likely brought marine worms to the port of one of the...
The study looked into how people living in remote Indigenous communities were being exposed to...
Five hundred kilometres north of Yellowknife, a group of Dene wildlife officers, Elders and researchers...
Nearly half of Canada’s land mass lies above permafrost. As it thaws, greenhouse gases stored...
A new study shows that the synthetic fibres being found throughout the Arctic Ocean are...
The world’s southernmost population of polar bears might be waiting longer for sea ice to...
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he doesn’t believe the Ontario government’s claims about the need to build homes in the Greenbelt, and could intervene...
Continue reading