Toxic contaminants detected in northerners at levels twice as high among general population
The study looked into how people living in remote Indigenous communities were being exposed to...
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.
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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...
Frozen tissue samples from a narwhal harvested by Inuit subsistence hunters will soon arrive at...
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was originally designed to be a … well, wildlife refuge....
The Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve in the Northwest Territories takes centre stage in the first...
Federal minister recommended re-starting review process for Mary River Mine, citing signing of controversial benefits agreement
Everything in an ecosystem is connected. A tiny sapling relies on a towering ancient tree, just like a newborn baby depends on its mother. And...
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