Inuit podcast takes us inside the Arctic meltdown

Inuit podcast takes us inside the Arctic meltdown

Siila Watt-Cloutier remembers gliding by dog sled across the frozen Arctic as a child — past landscapes that are now vanishing before her eyes. Through her new podcast, the Inuk leader and climate advocate is spotlighting Indigenous perspectives and the…

In Nunavik, climate change threatens Inuit traditions – The Rover

In Salluit, as in most villages in Nunavik, it is common to travel by snowmobile during the winter. These vehicles also allow Nunavimmiut to travel to the land to hunt and fish. PHOTO: Aurélia Crémoux Weather changes, shifts in wildlife, and evolving flora: in Nunavik, the climate crisis is altering people’s relationship with their land and traditions. Faced with this reality, Nunavimmiut share the challenges they face in preserving and passing …

Cultural burning: Wildfires in the Arctic – Wildfire Today

By Edward Alexander Thirty-two thousand years ago this spring, in the eastern interior of Alaska, during an ice age so severe that the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of the continent of North America a mile thick, a Gwich’in man, dressed in neatly tailored, tanned, caribou skin pants and a shirt, walked around the forested edge of a lake, dragging a stick through the tall grass. At the end of the stick flickered a flame that leapt to the gras…