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Ian is the community editor for environment at News Deeply. Before joining News Deeply, he was a freelance science journalist in Boston with a focus on environmental law and policy. He has been published in Undark Magazine, FiveThirtyEight, Nautilus and more. Ian grew up in California, and before getting into journalism he planned on becoming an ecologist. Instead, he pursued science writing and in 2016 he earned an MS in science journalism from Boston University. When he has spare time, Ian likes to get out and go hiking, backpacking and birding.
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When Robert Peary set out to reach the North Pole, he took along entire Indigenous families. New research looks at the experiences of the women who came along, whose stories have until recently gone largely untold.
Melaina Sheldon will soon lead the Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship, which teaches young northern Canadians about public policy. The idea, she says, is to help empower the next generation to tackle issues that affect their communities.
Without a high-speed fiber-optic link, Nunavut remains dependent on a sluggish, satellite-based internet service. That’s increasingly a problem for the territory’s economy and government, says Madeleine Redfern, the mayor of Nunavut’s capital, Iqaluit.
After laying more than 1,600km (1,000 miles) of undersea cable on Alaska’s coast, Quintillion is preparing to offer faster internet to six communities along the route. And the company has even bigger plans in store, says Kristina Woolston, V.P. of external relations.
Technological know-how, post-secondary education and weather forecasting are all priorities for the Nordic nation as it assumes the council’s chairmanship, says Heather Exner-Pirot, the managing editor of the Arctic Yearbook.
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