Disturbing instance in Yukon of mining approval granted without consent of Kaska First Nations. The Kaska have a good record in the courts, tho, so don’t count them out yet.
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In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.
How has your scholarship been impacted by a decision not to travel to the United States? Want to write about it for our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series?
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Image displaying front cover of The Northern Review 59 as well as text announcing special issue, New Frontiers in Northern Economic Development. The cover photo features the beautiful "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)" by Yukon artists Copper Caribou: collage of many pieces of colourful beadwork, nàagàii (beads), and Vadzaih ch’ijì (caribou antler) on hometan vadzaih dhòh (caribou hide).
#newarticle Multi-Level Governance for Renewable Energy Development in Nunavut: The Role of Community Consultation and Inuit Knowledge, by Anna Soer
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Front cover of The Northern Review 59 featuring the beautiful "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)" by Copper Caribou: photo of a collage of colourful beadwork, nàagàii (beads), and Vadzaih ch’ijì (caribou antler) on hometan vadzaih dhòh (caribou hide)
#NewIssue No. 59 is a special issue: New Frontiers in Northern Economic Development, with partial support from #CanNor #CanadianNorthernEconomicDevelopmentAgency
Thanks to Yukon artists Copper Caribou for the gorgeous cover, "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)"
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Andrew Coyne in the Globe and Mail lays it out.
"Annexation may not be on the table. But the idea that Canada must be tamed, subdued, brought to heel – reduced, in other words, to a vassal state – is very much part of MAGA thinking. We have become a problem, in need of a solution."
So true. And in Alberta, this policing has led to young women refusing to confirm their "biological sex" as a precondition to playing sports. Which has led to - guess what? Decreased participation of girls in sport, completely undermining the purported objective of the UCP. #abpoli
Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people
"Newly declassified documents obtained by CBC Indigenous confirm that the RCMP infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s..."
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"Poor countries may lose 10 times more people to deaths from high temperatures than rich ones, according to an analysis by Climate Impact Lab." (Bloomberg Green Newsletter)
However, as Zeke notes, 2023 started off similarly, yet it far exceeded warming expectations (and broke the record at that time). That could have been the result of a strong El Niño coming after a triple-dip Niña, but there is still uncertainty around this. Where will 2026 end up?
This woman is a QUEEN. But also, did you know. A lot of Natural History scientific illustrators in the 19th century, were usually partners and wives of famous male academics. Buckland, Lyell, Mantell, Murchinson, Gould etc. Their academic output was carried by their (invisible) wives.
Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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I'm happy to share a recently published article with Will Greaves, where we present an original dataset of 164 public opinion polls across the Arctic from 2007-2024 that illustrates the fragmentation of the Arctic into two distinct blocs.
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Can't Stop, Won't Stop. Renewables generated what is equivalent to more than a QUARTER of US Electricity needs last year.
"Greenland should be in the news because climate change is disrupting the key role it plays in the world’s climate system and in influencing sea level, with consequences for the livelihoods and lives of billions of people around the globe."
It should be against the law to operate a business and not have a clear mechanism to talk to a real human being when you need to.
"But he didn't know" okay, great, but did he speak out against an overtly sexist, racist power broker, or did he accept the invitations and the money? Because this culture doesn't just happen. It's created by the consent of the people who have access to those spaces.
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🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
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i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
Yet Gaza and Venezuela also demonstrate the intrinsic instability of such a coercive order. The Trump doctrine seeks control in a world that resists domination. By substituting coercion for consent, it multiplies the very crises it ostensibly aims to end. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The #BBNJ Agreement could strengthen biodiversity protection in the Central Arctic Ocean.
However, scientists warn that existing legal frameworks, weak enforcement and competing national interests may limit its impact in one of the ocean’s most politically complex regions.
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New paper just dropped. I helped out a bit.
Polar bear visits to human infrastructure increase with sea ice loss, not poor body condition.
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The US wants to establish supply chains for critical minerals free of Chinese control. Threatening Greenland will isolate the US from the very partners it needs to achieve this.
"I argue that this visual regime of Arctic melt itself is performative. It produces a kind of slow violence—not through physical destruction, but through infrastructural oversight and the erasure of context and nuance." - Audrey Medaino-Tardif
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It's finally happening.
The Swedish prime minister just announced that a pan-European force is arriving in #Greenland as we speak.
No word yet on whether UK forces are among them.
Danish newspaper @politiken.dk opens ENGLISH LANGUAGE section of its coverage of Greenland. Resource to understand local coverage, analysis, politics, and public opinion ⬇️
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Trump is ready to grab Greenland. The EU should move first – and offer it membership | Robert Habeck and Andreas Raspotnik
Queen's University is recruiting through the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program. Geography and Planning is a particularly great option for international scholars seeking to do northern or climate change research. Feel free to reach out if interested. www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...
Greenland’s next.