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Traditional Inuit Forecasting Sharpens Scientific Arctic Weather Insights
09.04.2010
The Inuit have long relied upon their indigenous forecasting skills to determine when a good time to go on a hunt is, but now they are finding that their centuries-old knowledge is no longer quite as useful. As climate change has begun to alter the weather of the Arctic, the…
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Tuberculosis Cause for Concern in Nunavut
15.03.2010
According to a Northern indigenous group, tuberculosis is spreading quickly across the Canadian Arctic. The number of new infections diagnosed among Inuit peoples has more than doubled, from 41 to 88 since 2004, and infection rates are now 185 times higher than in non-natives.
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Prehistoric Ancestors’ Response to Past Climate Change Useful Today
12.03.2010
Since 2004, a team of scientists headed by the University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has been working in the Arctic regions of Québec, northern Finland and Kamchatka (Russia) in an effort to understand how humans responded to climate changes some 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. The team hopes that…
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Humans Not Main Culprit in Musk Ox Population Decline After Last Ice Age
10.03.2010
A team of scientists found that human activity is not the reason behind the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began 12,000 years ago. The findings, to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows that while both human and musk ox…
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Tuft of Hair Used to Reconstruct Ancient Greenlander
11.02.2010
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have done the first reconstruction of the nuclear genome of an extinct human using DNA retrieved from tufts of hair and bone fragments from a man who lived in Greenland some 4,000 years ago. Besides the four small pieces of bone and hair, no…
