In his fascinating account of the dialogue on climate change between Western and Inuit voices, Timothy B. Leduc argues that it’s time to start paying attention to the ecological wisdom of native peoples because it might just hold the key to halting global warming
… Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming … February 2011 Reviews Climate Change Reviews Inuits Canada 41qsnl2ca2l._ss500_edit.jpg In … on climate change between Western and Inuit voices, Timothy B. Leduc argues that …
What's really behind the sudden global concern over the Inuit’s right to hunt - a concern that swung the polar bear vote at CITES? Luke Dale-Harris reports
… Inuit, the Polar Bear and Climate Change Luke Dale-Harris | 22nd March 2013 News CITES Inuit Polar Bears Conservation Hunting … behind the sudden global concern over the Inuit’s right to hunt - a concern that swung …
The native Inuit people of the Arctic regions need no convincing of the effects of global warming. As Clare Kendall discovers, they are already suffering its impact
… world Clare Kendall | 1st June 2006 News Inuit Global Warming Melting Ice Climate … Climate Change investigates.jpg The native Inuit people of the Arctic regions need no … the arctic has been melting. To the native Inuits of Northern Canada, the United States, …
A collapse in the price of uranium has not yet stopped Australian mining company GME from trying to press ahead with a massive open-pit uranium mine on an Arctic mountain in southern Greenland, writes Bill Williams - just returned from the small coastal town of Narsaq where local people and Inuit campaigners are driving the growing resistance to the ruinous project.
… Greenland Inuit oppose open-pit uranium mine on Arctic … coastal town of Narsaq where local people and Inuit campaigners are driving the growing … site in Kvanefjeld in southern Greenland. Inuit Ataqatigiit - the opposition party in …
A Canadian film about an Inuit boy's views on climate change and cultural transformation wins prestigious Commonwealth film prize
… Climate change through the eyes of an Inuit boy The Ecologist | 29th June 2009 Other Climate Change Inuit Commonwealth Vision Awards Greg Hemmings … A Canadian film about an Inuit boy's views on climate change and …
Part travelogue, part lament for a threatened way of life, Ruth Styles says that Bruce Parry’s latest book, Arctic, shows us exactly what we stand to lose if global warming isn’t stopped - today
… Wildlife Oil Sands Canada Siberia Greenland Inuits Climate Change arctic-coveredit.jpg … the accompanying TV series. From Rasmus, an Inuit hunter-gather, to Yegor, a Siberian … population. A traditional food animal for the Inuit, the walrus season is shortening and the …
An Inuit hunting trip inspired Clare Kendall to seek out sources of meat that were good for her health, the environment - and her pet cat............
… facts before you make a decision to buy. An Inuit hunting trip inspired Clare Kendall to … I stayed in the Canadian high arctic at an Inuit village, researching an article about … want to take part. This made our bewildered Inuit guide exclaim: “But you’re farming m …
Greenland's first female prime minister is on a modernising drive to prosperity and independence, But will the combination of melting glaciers, oil, mining projects and mass immigration bring wealth or destruction?
… which is very important to us." Traditional 'Inuit lifestyle' under threat Contrary to … need to be heard - among them the indigenous Inuit peoples. Hammond says she is confident … handle the ongoing transition from the old 'Inuit lifestyle' to a modern society, or from …
Edgar Vaid reviews 'In Predatory Light: Lions and Tigers and Polar Bears', by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Sy Montgomery, and John Houston
… In fact, it's the name given by the Inuit to their traditional knowledge, and some … want to be disturbed. Far to the north, the Inuit hunters of the Arctic understood the … Rather humbling is the revelation that the Inuit name for white men is "the people who …
Wayne Dixon has taken litter-picking into his own hands after becoming tired of anger and apathy. ANNABEL TARRANT reflects on his journey
… quiet pint with a friend, Koda, the enormous Inuit husky, who was sleeping on the ground … through with lots of help from the Northern Inuit rescue society. Warm welcomes The … mental health charity Mind and the Northern Inuit Society . Wildlife gets hurt by humans …
The CITES COP16 (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) has just ended in Bangkok, to very mixed reviews. Lorna Howarth reports on the good news, and the bad.
… NGOs, but Terry Audla, President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said he felt proud … community had agreed that the way the Inuit manage the polar bear is working. “It is … cease, or at least only continue within the Inuit communities. However, what is perhaps …
Canadian coastal communities are faced with rising sea levels as the government continues to support destructive tar sands mining
… Canada remain systematically oppressed. The Inuit of Tuktoyaktuk bear daily witness to the … Despite the ecological odds faced by the Inuit people of Tuktoyaktuk, they remain …
Immediate moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local community and ecosystem as well as reduce potential carbon emissions
… VIDEO Climate change through the eyes of an Inuit boy A Canadian film about an Inuit boy's views on climate change and …
Although arguably reductive in its initial analysis, Fleeing Vesuvius is a refreshingly uncompromising critique on almost every aspect of current global trends
… Ruth Styles REVIEW Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming … on climate change between Western and Inuit voices, Timothy B. Leduc argues that …
Canada joined by WWF in rebuffing efforts at Cites conference to stop hunting and commercial exploitation
… Some countries did not attend to vote. Inuit delegates appealed to emotion in their … year in Canada, some in traditional hunts by Inuit people and some as trophies for foreign …
Global weather patterns have always been unpredictable but current changes are being amplified by the impact of people, consumption and pollution. In The New North, Laurence Smith looks at what the next four decades could bring – both for the weather and for us
… REVIEW Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming … on climate change between Western and Inuit voices, Timothy B. Leduc argues that …
As Arctic Peoples at COP21 in Paris appeal for unity to halt global warming, writes Tim Radford, scientists report that Greenland's glaciers are now melting at a speed not seen since the last Ice Age almost 10,000 years ago.
… peoples, the Nunavut region of Canada and the Inuit Circumpolar Council appealed to the … with an Arctic human dimension. Our joint Inuit voice and our traditional know-how from …
Combining a detailed dissection of our unsustainable economy with an introduction to Buddhism, Sulak Sivaraksa’s economic vision provides an alternative to globalisation
… READ MORE... REVIEW Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming … on climate change between Western and Inuit voices, Timothy B. Leduc argues that …
‘Britain’s astounding retreat from reason is now legitimising anarchy.’ That was the conclusion of the hotblooded screaming radical Melanie Phillips, writing for The Spectator.
… from climate change. Following evidence from Inuit leader Aqqaluk Lynge, climate scientist …
As if melting ice in Polar bears' Arctic habitat was not enough, Norwegian scientists have found that organic pollutants such as pesticide residues are disrupting their thyroid and endocrine systems, adding a further threat to the species' survival.
… taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and …
It's tough being a filmmaker on the front line of environmental defense, writes David Lavallee - challenging corporate control of the Earth's resources, not to mention governments and security services, all of them intent on extracting every last drop of oil and gas from the world's most pristine places. All the more so when holding a camera makes you an instant 'eco-terrorist'.
… of oil exploration on marine mammals and the Inuit people. I also travelled to the midwest …
When the 600 residents of the Shishmaref Alaskan village decided last week to relocate due to the impact of Climate Change we moved beyond the 'wakeup call' stage to a serious tipping point, writes Dr CARA AUGUSTENBORG
… Cara Augustenborg | 23rd August 2016 Comment Inuit Climate Change Climate Refugees Alaska …
The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews is a journey of individual and collective rewilding, says ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT. It is a fictional, hopeful and challenging account of a young woman in uncharted territory.
… nuclear war to vulnerability, technology to Inuit mythology. And by way of humans the …
Campaigners and MEPs say legal challenges by hunters and seal traders will not succeed to overturning the new EU wide ban on the trade in seal products
… and Norway, but does not affect sealing by Inuit and other indigenous peoples. The US and …