On the trail of the Porcupine caribou herd
They’re one of North America’s last healthy caribou populations but an insatiable appetite for thawing...
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.
They’re one of North America’s last healthy caribou populations but an insatiable appetite for thawing...
Understanding ecological grief while our world changes around us
We're pushing the limits of a new frontier in our northernmost ocean but a total...
Salmon used to be infrequent visitors to the Mackenzie River and communities of the Arctic,...
SmartICE combines traditional Inuit knowledge and satellite technology
Plastic is not only ending up in the Arctic, it's also being found throughout the...
The effects of climate change can be complex and unpredictable. For one species of Arctic...
On a sunny August afternoon in 2010, the Clipper Adventurer hit an underwater rock shelf...
In the mid-1970s, a young lawyer named Ian Waddell took a helicopter ride across the...
November nights in Grand Forks are dipping below freezing, so Courtnay and Jesse Redding are racing the clock as they hustle to transform a 12-by-16-foot...
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