How Canada Could Prevent Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and Save the Porcupine Caribou
In the mid-1970s, a young lawyer named Ian Waddell took a helicopter ride across the...
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.
In the mid-1970s, a young lawyer named Ian Waddell took a helicopter ride across the...
By Edward Struzik This article was originally published on The Conversation Canada. Northwest Territories Premier...
Polar bears have long been a symbol of a warming climate, a visible victim of...
In the remote north-eastern corner of Alaska, just under 20-million acres have been set aside as...
Danita Catherine Burke, University of Southern Denmark. The Arctic is many things to many people....
Each winter in Canada’s far north, a series of ice roads take form, providing people...
Canada’s great, white north seems to be getting a little less white as the years...
By Andrew King, University of Melbourne For the Arctic, like the globe as a whole, 2016...
“If you were to get lost in the bush, I could find you.” It’s an...
There was a sight for sore eyes in late July off the coast of Tofino, when a Dutch-built, Vancouver-registered 30-metre barge, Salar, was towed out...
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