In southern Quebec, we turn on the tap and watch the wastewater go down the drain without question. Not so in Nunavik, where permafrost prevents the construction of water and sewer systems. At home, questions arise not only about drinking water management, but also about water quality, as Stéphanie Guilherme, professor in the Department of Civil and Water Engineering at Université Laval, explains.

Before colonisation, the Inuit had their own system of social regulation, often mediated by elders or family providers. Even today, various informal mechanisms help maintain social order, such as denouncing a person's misbehavior on community radio without naming him or her. But with colonisation, Inuit have seen non-Inuit judges and police arrive to settle their disputes...

Mussels have a lot to say: about their own state of health as well as that of their environment, about the pathogens they harbor, those that would be harmful to consumers, but also about the microorganisms present in the ecosystem around them that may be pathogenic to other species...

This month, science journalist Valérie Levée focuses on the work of researcher Émilie Fortin-Lefebvre, professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, director of the Centre d'études pour l'autonomie économique des Premiers Peuples et des Inuit and newly appointed co-director of INQ's Society and Culture Axis.

To supply Kuujjuaq, ships must travel dozens of kilometers up the estuary of the river of same name, which is subject to tides as strong as those in the Bay of Fundy. There is a real risk of marine incidents...

Winter floods are localized, sudden, and often fly under the radar of weather forecasts. And yet they will increase with climate change. To predict them, we need to...

Relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are not only about tension and conflict. Harmony can also exist. This is...

In 2008, space agencies made their satellite data freely available and remote sensing entered a new era...

If you see Dany Dumont canoeing through the ice, it's not just for sport. It's also for science. He has made sea ice his research focus.

Tuberculosis was first introduced to the Arctic by European settlers. As a continuation of colonization, the Nunavik health-care system is modeled on that of the South and is designed to...

With climate change and thawing permafrost, peatlands are often considered a "methane bomb". This overlooks the fact that climate change is also resulting in greening of the Arctic...