On a remote fjord in northwest Greenland, traditional Inuit hunting techniques are being used to affix tiny, high-tech satellite transmitters onto narwhals — a kind of Arctic whale famous for its long ...
IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory ” Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water too, ...
A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization called Inuit Sila is based in Copenhagen and has been defending ...
Two tourists from Turkey were in Arctic Bay to document the effects of climate change and to photograph polar bears in the Nunavut territory recently, but wound up in hot water with the locals when ...
My most profound hunting experience came on the Arctic ice somewhere off Baffin Island with an Inuit hunter. We had been searching for walrus in a special part of the Northwest Passage where currents ...
RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut – Michaelle Jean launched a passionate defence of Canada’s seal hunt against international critics who have decried her participation in an Inuit ritual. In fact, the Governor ...
Located inside the Arctic Circle in the central part of West Greenland, the property contains the remains of 4,200 years of human history. It is a cultural landscape which bears witness to its ...
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...