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...
Adapting to a fast-food diet: How did the polar bears do it?
By Jeremy Lant and David Smith, Photo by Dave Reid
The researchers found that polar bears have an extra sticky version of Apo B grip...
First-ever production lease for mineral exploration rights signed
Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) has signed its first-ever mineral production lease, allowing Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) to extract gold from Inuit-owned land near the...
Ancient arctic beasts feasted on wildflowers
How has the the Arctic tundra evolved?
Frozen ancestry under the Arctic sea ice
Solving evolutionary puzzles
By David Smith
Sometimes explorers find great treasures buried in the snow. The comic book adventurer Tintin, for instance, would often stumble upon...