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Traditional indigenous cultures can teach wasteful modern cultures about how not to waste food, the United Nations Environment Program says.
UNEP’s World Environment Day, this coming June 5, is this year dedicated to the theme of reducing food waste.
In a statement issued May 20, UNEP estimates...
New research from two public health researchers suggests that suicide may be contagious, particularly among children aged 12 and 13, and that school or community-wide suicide prevention efforts may be the most effective.
“We found that exposure to suicide predicts suicidality [suicidal thoughts or...
Search and rescue parties in Baker Lake have called off their search for Baker Lake elder Alvin Kannak, who was reported lost May 7 while travelling to the community from Rankin Inlet.
On the advice of community elders, the Baker Lake search and rescue committee decided May 20 halt the search...
China plans to act as “a serious player and peaceful power” and “act in a positive way” as an observer at the Arctic Council, the Chinese ambassador to Finland Huang Xing told the Xinhua news agency.
“I am pleased to learn the news that China has been accepted as a formal observer of this...
The YWCA Agvvik Nunavut group celebrated with supporters of its two women’s shelters May 18 at Its second annual Ulluriaq Soirée gala in Iqaluit.
The event featured prizes, raffles and a silent auction to raise funds for the Qimaavik Shelter for battered women and Sivumut House for homeless women...
More than 2,000 indigenous people from around the world are in New York City for the twelfth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 20 to May 31 at the UN Headquarters.
During the session members of the Permanent Forum meet with indigenous peoples, UN Member...
Alaska wants to conduct seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell offered up $50 million May 21 to start seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, along with a 104-page report to support that proposal.
The coastal area that Alaska wants to...
A May 16 day-trip outside the western Nunavut town of Cambridge Bay was intended to give elders and Grade 8 students at Kiilinik High School a chance to bond over a traditional activity — ice fishing.
Instead, the day’s experience turned out to be a test case for the school’s emergency response...
Canada’s far North will continue to feel the heat during the summer of 2013.
That’s according to May 20 summer weather outlook from Accu Weather which says the Arctic will continue to experience “well above-normal temperatures.”
Canada as a whole will experience a more typical summer weather in...
Government of Nunavut politicians, along with police, health and education officials, cut a sealskin ribbon May 17 to officially open the Akausisarvik Mental Health Treatment Centre in Iqaluit.
Until 2010 the sky-blue coloured building, located near Inuksuk high school, housed the Tammaativvik...
Scientists behind seven environmental projects learned May 17 that they will share a total of $32 million over five years from the federal government’s Climate Change and Atmospheric Research program.
The money will support teams composed of university researchers, scientists and partner...
Caribou populations in southern Baffin Island have declined by more than 95 per cent over the past 20 years, according to a 2012 survey by Nunavut’s department of Environment.
The results “are consistent” with what the government has heard “from all 10 Baffin Island communities” Environment...
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