News tagged with canadian inuit
What do killer whales eat in the Arctic?
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predator, wherever they are found, and seem to eat everything from schools of small fish to large baleen whales, over twice their own size. The increase in hun ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Patterns of growth changing in Inuit preschoolers
Inuit preschoolers in Nunavut are as tall as their U.S. counterparts but they're also heavier, according to a new study published in the online edition of the International Journal of Circumpolar Health.
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Inuit are on the right track
Inuit trails are more than merely means to get from A to B. In reality, they represent a complex social network spanning the Canadian Arctic and are a distinctive aspect of the Inuit cultural identity. And what is remarkable ...
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Voyage to the 'front line' of global warming
When Cameron Dueck set sail to the Canadian Arctic to witness what he calls "the front line of climate change", he did so knowing he would have to brave seas that have killed scores of sailors and reduced ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2012 |
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Increase in Arctic shipping poses risk to marine mammals
A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for food security ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Climate change leads to pollution of indigenous people's water supplies
Indigenous people around the world are among the most vulnerable to climate change and are increasingly susceptible to the pathogen loads found in potable water after heavy rainfall or rapid snow melt.
Feb 17, 2012 |
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U-M divers retrieve prehistoric wood from Lake Huron
(PhysOrg.com) -- Under the cold clear waters of Lake Huron, University of Michigan researchers have found a five-and-a-half foot-long, pole-shaped piece of wood that is 8,900 years old. The wood, which is ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Weather, snow models help arctic Canada's inuit people
A Colorado State University atmospheric scientist is helping the physically isolated Inuit people on Canada’s Baffin Island with a groundbreaking weather model that quickly identifies and predicts dangerous ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Eye on the environment
The Canadian Arctic. The Amazonian jungle. The fringes of an African rainforest.
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Greenland becomes new promised land for oil firms
Large, untapped oil and gas reserves have been attracting oil firms to Greenland, which hopes the resources will help speed up its independence, but there is unwanted attention from environmentalists.
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Meet Microsoft's guru of 'design matters'
Bill Buxton is multiplatform the way Leonardo da Vinci was multiplatform. The Microsoft researcher is a technologist, a designer, a musician, an author, outdoorsman and a nationally ranked equestrian.
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Tuberculosis in Nunavut: a century of failure
A recent outbreak of tuberculosis in Nunavut, with a population infection rate 62 times the Canadian average, points to a need to rebuild trust in public health to combat the disease, states an editorial published in CMAJ ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Indigenous peoples adapt to climate change
The climate in the Northeastern United States changed drastically more than five times before the first Europeans arrived. A new study suggests that the indigenous people in the area were able to adapt their ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 06, 2010 |
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