The COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks in several communities across Nunavut have brought the Inuit housing crisis into focus. Inadequate and unsafe housing is endemic in many Inuit communities and has ...

Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth in concentrated effort, trimmed the edges on a block of snow above his head. Ice crystals cascaded around him as the block settled into ...

Any grade school kid can tell you that an igloo is a scoop-shaped home made of compacted snow and ice by Inuit tribes. What they might be less capable of describing is why igloos work so well as ...

One of the classic symbols of winter is the igloo. Because Santa lives in the Arctic, you will sometimes see igloos in the Santa story as well. And igloos show up in cartoons all the time. But all of ...

The Aleut and Inuit have many names for snow; to one whose world is made up of snow, it is important to distinguish between the various forms. The best types of snow to use for building an igloo are ...

KANGIQSUJUAQ, Quebec - Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth in concentrated effort, trimmed the edges on a block of snow above his head. Ice crystals cascaded around him as ...

KANGIQSUJUAQ, Quebec — Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth in concentrated effort, trimmed the edges on a block of snow above his head. Ice crystals cascaded around him as ...