About "The North"
The people, places, events and latest research of Canada’s subarctic and Arctic regions, one of the fastest-changing environments on Earth
Housing in the Arctic has typically been built to southern standards, failing to take into account the physical and social needs of northerners. A growing movement within the building profession is hoping to change that.
(Photo: Ginette Vachon/Can Geo Photo Club
Guillaume Moreau and Philippe Voghel-Robert of Expédition AKOR portage a series of impressive rapids on the Meadowbank River, Nunavut. (Photo: Expédition AKOR)
Cory Trépanier perched at the mouth of Wilberforce Falls, Hood River, west of Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, while painting one of the pieces from his Into the Arctic series more than a decade ago. (Photo: Max Attwood)
Since the start of satellite records in 1979, the number of days per year that sea ice is present has declined in each subpopulation’s region. (Photo: Andreas Preußer, CC BY-ND 3.0)
Glaciologist Joseph Cook studies microbial ecosystems on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. (Photo: Rolex/Cook collection)
This skull, known as Cranium 80, was formally documented on the western coast of Nunavut's King William Island in 1993, and was believed to belong to a member of the ill-fated Franklin expedition. Recent DNA testing definitively linked it to crewman John Gregory. (Photo: Andrew Gregg)
(Photo: Courtesy Sustainable Marine Energy)
The “Imaa, Like This” team took home the $1 million prize for their project.
Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålun Strøm take a drone selfie of their camp at Bamsebu in Svalbard, Norway. (Photo: Hearts in the Ice)
