Exploration
Return to the Peel
We came to retrace an ancestor’s 1905 map-making expedition of the Peel River watershed. We left with a new-found appreciation of what this ancient land means to the people who live there.
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Exploration
Expedition log: Back to the Peel
David McGuffin shares insights from his daily log during his summer 2018 expedition retracing a legendary trek on the Yukon’s Peel River
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Travel
Road-tripping to the Arctic Ocean
Everything you need to know about driving the Northwest Territories’ new Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway
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Environment
Dehcho Grand Chief honoured for bold conservation approach
Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations, is the recipient of this year’s Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize
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Science & Tech
Enquêtes sur les effets des feux de forêt du nord sur les paysages
Des études en cours sur les paysages marqués par des feux de forêt dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest révèlent la surprenante résilience des cours d’eau et des lacs
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Environment
What spiders can teach us about ecology
The spider's web is the perfect metaphor for the interconnections between species, people and place
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Environment
Au cœur de la lutte pour la protection du « Cœur de l’eau » de l’Arctique
Comment les Dénés Sahtuto’ine de Délı̨nę ont créé la réserve de biosphère de Tsá Tué, le premier site de l’UNESCO au monde géré par une communauté autochtone.
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Environment
Inside the fight to protect the Arctic’s “Water Heart”
How the Sahtuto’ine Dene of Délı̨nę created the Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve, the world’s first such UNESCO site managed by an Indigenous community
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People & Culture
Photos: Life inside the Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve
Photographer Angela Gzowski shares her experience shooting within the Délı̨nę community
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Articles
Science & Tech
Investigating the landscape legacies of northern wildfires
Ongoing studies of fire-scarred landscapes in the Northwest Territories are revealing the surprising resilience of northern streams and lakes
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Environment
Lightning storms predicted to spark more fires in North American boreal forests
Future ignitions may increase carbon emissions and accelerate the boreal forest’s northern expansion
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Travel
Northwest Territories promotes last chance to drive historic ice road
Next winter, the ice road connecting Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk will be replaced by an all-season overland highway
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People & Culture
Northern vision
An interview with Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the past, present and future of Canada's North
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Science & Tech
An energy gem
Wind power is fueling the push to green diamond mines in the Northwest Territories
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