How can we all get smarter about monitoring climate change in our communities? Ashoka’s Barb Steele talks to ecologist and filmmaker Joel Heath, a Newfoundland native and co-creator of SIKU: the ...

Twenty years ago, the Inuit Studies Conference in St. John's drew protests. Today it draws praise. The difference, says Dave Lough, deputy minister of culture, recreation and tourism with the ...

Nanuk, the Inuktitut word for polar bear, is an iconic animal, capturing public imaginations and starring in international marketing campaigns. As nanuk has increasingly been used as the poster ...

Navigating climate-change-induced ice loss while hunting? There’s an app for that. Inuit hunters now have a new tool at their disposal, thanks to a melding of indigenous knowledge with tech and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Rex Holwell was a kid, early December usually marked a time when the ice would ...

Canada and the four other countries with Arctic coastlines signed the agreement last week. China, Japan, South Korea, the European Union and Iceland also signed on. Inuit from three countries, ...

In a normal year, November is the month when frozen water reconnects friends and families on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. In the Inuktitut language, the word for November—Tusaqtuut—means ...