Eilís Quinn

3 weeks ago | rcinet.ca | Eilís Quinn

The European Commission’s recent approval of 47 strategic projects aimed at mining and processing raw minerals, has been condemned as a significant violation of Indigenous rights, according to the president of the NGO representing the international Sámi community. The mining projects Talga Graphite in Nunasvaara, LKAB ReeMap in Malmberget, and LKAB Per Geijer in Kiruna, all located in Arctic Sweden, part of the traditional Saami homeland.

3 weeks ago | rcinet.ca | Eilís Quinn

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the consequences could extend far beyond the North. Known as the Beaufort Gyre, this swirling current above Alaska and Canada’s western Arctic, accumulates freshwater and helps regulate the temperature and salinity of the region’s waters. But with climate change accelerating, the future is uncertain.

4 weeks ago | rcinet.ca | Eilís Quinn

U.S. President Donald Trump’s ongoing rhetoric around owning Greenland, coupled with U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s upcoming trip to the island, could backfire, an Arctic expert is warning. While the U.S. is right to acknowledge Greenland’s strategic importance, the administration’s handling of the matter is “inexplicable,” the expert says.

1 month ago | rcinet.ca | Eilís Quinn

U.S. tariffs are threatening the Indigenous tourism rebound in northern Canada, just as the industry was starting to emerge from the shadow of COVID-19, says the organization that works to support and promote Indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs working in the sector. Indigenous tourism experienced its best tourism year in 2019 before being hammered by COVID-19 when the pandemic was declared in March 2020, the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) said.

1 month ago | thebarentsobserver.com | Eilís Quinn

The study, published in the journal Science Advances, found that his process—known as atlantification—is melting sea ice faster than ever before as it pushes further into the Arctic Ocean near Russia. “The eastern part of the Siberian Arctic Ocean is still strongly stratified, but the atlantification-driven shoaling of warm, salty, and nutrient-rich intermediate waters already has important ecological consequences there,” the authors on the international research team said in the study.