Science
Yellowknife Lakes
The final frontier in exploratory fish biology
For an ichthyologist with a Ph.D., my fall assignment sounded routine: a basic lake-wide survey of fish in...
Flat Plants from a Flat Land
Would you believe me if I told you that a plant in the coffee family grows wild on the expansive tundra outside Arviat, Nunavut,...
Citizen science comes to the Arctic
Scientific research in the Arctic has traditionally been conducted by university academics or government agencies, who have sometimes been guilty of working in isolation...
Missing link to complex life found deep in the Arctic ocean
The complexity of living things can be baffling. Take one of your own cells, for instance. If you could zoom in and look at...
Saving Our Arctic Heritage
What do you think the biggest threat to our Arctic heritage sites is? Unlike most parts of the world, where it is human activity,...
Genome sequencing suggests Inuit are adapted to the Arctic
Can you remember Pokémon toys — those cute mammalian critters that appeared in everything from videogames to comics to animated television? one of the...
Northern Lights – Sharing the magic of the Aurora
Arctic science is often about things you can do nowhere else, and perhaps no one phenomenon is more associated with the Arctic than the...
The Arctic Institute: 70 years young
Sometimes Canadians see value in the great white North, are proud of our Inuit citizens and their thousands of years of history, even see...
NASA’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment
The Earth is constantly changing. Some changes are natural and occur quickly, like a passing storm, or very slowly, like the retreat of the...
Hidden Treasures of the Arctic Ocean
By Noel Alfonso
Canada’s national identity is firmly bound to the Arctic. Inuit and Inuvialuit have lived in the Arctic for millennia and later European...