Science and Adventure

Into the Hot Zone

Dying bears. Dripping glaciers. Inuit in peril. Bestselling author Ed Struzik wades into the climate change meltdown.

Deer in the headlights

Aboriginals, whites and the clash over caribou. By Tim Querengesser

Home of the blizzard

Nunavut has seen lots of snowstorms, but no one was ready for what struck the Kivalliq region last winter.

Bears, Parks and Arms

By Nathan VanderKlippe -- In Arctic national parks, polar bears can enter – but firearms can’t. Conservation must or safety hazard?

Where the muskox roam

Jessa Gamble embarks on an adventure down the Thelon River, hunting a quarry that’s huge, ancient, shaggy – and utterly elusive.

Under the Gun

As sea-ice recedes, polar bears have become a climate-change poster child, placing the North’s sport-hunt industry on ice. By Jasmine Budak

More Science and Nature

It’s widely feared climate change could melt the Arctic, causing global chaos. Enter Peter Flynn, Poole Chair in Management for Engineers at the University of Alberta, with a scheme to save the world.

I am the Walrus

The Arctic's two-ton tooth walkers are more than just good-looking. By Mifi Purvis

Walruses have 18 teeth. Two of them, the canids, grow into the animal's trademark enamel tusks. These tusks break through in calves in their first year -- and grow for another 15 years or more.

Whitehorse		7^°C
Yellowknife		13^°C
Iqaluit		9^°C