In an effort to help some of the more than 1,400 families that are currently on a waiting list for public housing in Nunavut get the shelter that they need, an Ottawa company has taught Nunavut officials how to assemble an energy-efficient house in just five days.

In a bid to strengthen both its presence and sovereignty in the Arctic, Canada has agreed to join with Russia and Norway to provide shipping and weather alerts in the region.

Arctic Science and Politics will be highlighted at the Rovaniemi seminar that marks the anniversary.

Oil exploration outside the remote Arctic island Jan Mayen is not likely to start in the next few years. Still, this week a delegation of Norwegian politicians, business groups and environmentalists visited the glacier-clad island north of Iceland to look at the potential for exploration.

Coastal villages in Alaska (USA) are reeling from the erosion caused by unprecedented warming trends due to climate change, explains Sharon McClintock. One of the most impacted areas is Shishmaref, a traditional Inupiat village in the Bering Straits with a population of just over 600 people.

America's Arctic has long been a place of myth and dream, where the Inupiat Eskimos have thrived, explorers endured and artists found inspiration. While competing visions of the Arctic have clashed in the past, we are now on a collision course between industrial development and the unspoiled environment that has supported Alaska Natives' traditional culture.

An advisory committee in Alaska would like the state to revise its regulations stipulating how animal meat is salvaged. The reason for the requested rewrite is that “commonsense” hunting practices are currently in conflict with Alaska state law.

Russia must speed up the development of the Northern Sea Route before climate change makes it possible to use the North East Passage outside the Russian 200 miles zone, says Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast Ilya Mikhailchuk.

University of Calgary graduate student Casey Hubert and a team of scientists have discovered a heat loving bacteria in a very unusual place – Arctic Ocean sediments off the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. These bacterial spores could provide an opportunity for scientists to trace seepages of liquids from hot sub-seafloor areas. This could possibly lead to previously undiscovered offshore petroleum reservoirs.

Last week, Shtokman Development AG held public hearings to discuss a reconnaissance programme expected to pave the way for the development of the infrastructure needed in Teriberka on the Kola Peninsula