The traditional diet of the Inuit people of Northern Canada consists primarily of marine foods rich in n-3 fatty acids, a class of polyunsaturated fats that have beneficial effects on cardiovascular ...

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For generations, Inuit families in Igloolik have made Igunaq, or fermented walrus. They use the permafrost to store the meat for months. Now warming temperatures are changing the ground itself. The ...

Over three-quarters of adults in Inuit Nunangat face food insecurity, a rate more than six times the Canadian national average. This statistic reflects not only limited access to market food but also ...

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2014 file photo, men haul sections of whale skin and blubber, known as muktuk, as a bowhead whale is butchered in a field near Barrow, Alaska. The environment is changing and ...

In her gloved hand, Nicole Norman holds up a small sea creature: a dark, armored and articulated shell glistening with the slick of seawater. She flips it around, revealing vibrant orange flesh on its ...

Washington, DC - January 4, 2017 - Researchers at the University of Montreal, in Canada, have characterized the gut microbiome of the Canadian Arctic Inuit for the first time. Reporting this week in ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Hunters in Igloolik, Nunavut, used to know exactly where to dig. Just beneath the gravel surface, ...

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ten years ago, the 1,200 residents of the tiny, mostly Inuit village of Nain, in ...

In the Canadian Arctic, food that's shipped in can be costly. People still hunt as their ancestors did — for seal, polar bear and narwhal. In the most northerly Canadian territory of Nunavut, grocery ...