The Canadian Press

A proposal by the United States to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated Thursday at an international meeting of conservationists, marking a victory for Canada's indigenous Inuit people over their big neighbor to the south.

A Canadian House of Commons committee suggests in a new report that airships could play a transportation role in the Arctic, especially when it comes to reaching remote communities.

A panel of polar bear experts has created a list of ways to save the iconic northern bear species should climate change imminently threaten its survival.

A lawyer with Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission argues the government must stop refusing to turn over millions of records related to what he called "the highest level of human tragedy" -- Canada's Indian residential school system.

Canada's turn: With the eyes of the world upon the Far North, the largest country in the Arctic prepares to take the helm of the eight-nation council overseeing circumpolar issues.

The body of water is in the Arctic Ocean, just north of Ellesmere Island and Greenland.

Somewhere between tales of judges bunking with strangers and pushing airplanes out of the mud it becomes clear the court system in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut works a little differently.

Environment Canada researchers studied 40 years of data from across the Arctic from April to June and found the decline in spring snow cover was actually slightly faster than the decline in sea ice.

"Everything that we are is in our language," said Callie Hill, director of Tyendinaga First Nation's Tsi Tyonnheht Onkawenna Language and Cultural Center. "It is the base of who we are."

A Canadian company that makes extreme-weather clothing prevails in a legal case against counterfeiters who used mulch and fillers that in some cases were covered in bacteria and feces.

Running fiber-optic lines under the Northwest Passage, instead of to the U.S. coast, across the country, then back underseas again, would shave 29 milliseconds off data transmission time between Tokyo and London, according to a Canadian company push for an Arctic cable.

The Canol formation could hold between 2 billion and 3 billion barrels of recoverable oil. But recent leaks in a nearby oil pipeline and concerns about wastewater give pause Canadians of the Northwest Territories.

A criminal intelligence report cites potential dangers from environmental activists to Canadian offshore oil platforms and hazardous marine shipments.

The "critical equipment shortfalls" were so bad last year, the head of the army approved a request by area commanders to buy missing gear themselves, say internal briefing documents.

More than 2,000 scientists from 67 nations call for a commercial fishing moratorium in the Arctic until sustainable fishing quotas can be set.