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Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve ...
Issues affecting circumpolar nations ...
There may be only about 51,000 Kalaallit in the world, but we know how to resist imperialism The post Greenland Has Been ...
Inuit guardians are on the front lines of maintaining sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, but small yachts are still allowed to travel through Nunavut’s waters undetected, experts told a ...
Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The ...
Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a ...
A new study in Science uses ancient and modern DNA to tell the Qimmeq’s story. It’s a story not just about dogs, but also ...
Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one ...
The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...
Using the DNA from both modern dogs and ones found at archaeological sites, researchers have been able to explore the longest ...
Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...
A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.