By Nikki Wiart In a culture that thrives on oral history, there are some stories that are never told. Inuit youth are dying by suicide at an alarming rate in northern Canada — over the past 20 years, Inuit suicide rates have been about 10 times 110 deaths per 100,000 people the Canadian average, or

By Kevin McGwin  “It comes from here,” Anne-Sofie Hardenberg says, pointing to the small of her back with one hand while waving a chef’s knife at a box-shaped roast on a cutting board. We decide that if it had come from a pig, it would probably be a loin, or perhaps a rump roast. Hardenberg

By Brian Kingston Food insecurity rates in Nunavut are among the highest in the world for an indigenous population living in a developed country. In fact, over two-thirds of people in Nunavut have trouble finding enough affordable, nutritious food.  This is not acceptable, and Canada must act. Food is a basic human need, a part

By Diane Burko I am an artist consumed by how ice is an indicator of climate change. Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, whose ice sheet empties into the Arctic Ocean, first attracted my attention in 2010 when a large piece of its floating tongue cracked off. The giant iceberg that separated from the sheet (the size of

By Chantal Bilodeau A few weeks ago, I returned from a trip to Tromsø in the Norwegian Arctic, where I spent five days working on my new play Forward. I had been invited by Hålogaland Teater to participate in their ArtLab program, which provides 25 hours of rehearsals followed by a public presentation of the

By Sophie des Beauvais Last February, 26-year-old Loretta Saunders was found dead two weeks after she disappeared, while she herself was working on a thesis on missing and murdered Inuit women in Canada. She was the third Native woman killed that year, and five others were found later last autumn. Her death has sparked calls

By Dorothea Wehrmann “Warming Up to Arctic Prospects” “Race is on as Ice Melt Reveals Arctic Treasures” As articles in The New York Times and in The Washington Post exemplify, the Arctic has made national, if not global, headlines—and these articles increasingly rely on powerful and evocative imagery to reach readers. However, mainstream media is

Today we are showcasing a somewhat lighter article, highlighting the magnificence of the Arctic—a region worthy of a photographic expedition. In 2011, Brazilian artist Marcelo Moscheta participated in the Arctic Circle expedition in the international territory of Svalbard. His resulting installations and journal entries offer an inside look at the Arctic’s remote terrain. By Marcelo Moscheta

By Chantal Bilodeau In 2009, after receiving a commission from Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company to write a new play about the intersection of race, class, and climate change, I embarked on a research trip to Baffin Island, in the territory of Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic.  With no prior experience, I had only a vague

By Erica Dingman Marco Tedesco envisions a scientific narrative that far surpasses the confines of conferences and the annals of academic journals. As a scientist who studies the Greenland ice sheet, his annual trek to the region informs his research and teaching at City College of New York (CCNY). Yet, Tedesco’s wanderlust extends beyond academia,