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Scientific News

To celebrate Quebec's excellence in northern research and to highlight the various challenges and issues related to these territories, Institut nordique du Québec offers you a series of articles dedicated to the research conducted in its community.

Over the months, you will discover a multidisciplinary research community whose strength lies in the complementary expertise of its members. You will meet individuals who share a strong attachment to the North and who are dedicated to producing, in collaboration with the inhabitants of the region, the knowledge necessary for its sustainable and harmonious development.

The Canadian Arctic: carbon sink or source?

Published on September 26, 2023

This month's scientific news focuses on the research of Oliver Sonnentag, an INQ-affiliated researcher, professor in the Department of Geography at the Université de Montréal and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Atmospheric Biogeosciences at High-Latitudes.

deux scientifiques dans la neige pour détecter les lames de glace

Detecting ice layers

Published on June 15, 2023

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...

The territory as a link between nations

Published on April 27, 2023

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

The Arctic under the gaze of satellites

Published on March 22, 2023

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

A physicist canoeing in the ice

Published on February 14, 2023

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.

Towards self-determination of an Inuit health system

Published on November 30, 2022

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...

Will the methane bomb explode?

Published on October 24, 2022

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 and increased CO2 uptake through photosynthesis. The outcome may not lead to the anticipated methane bomb. Michelle Garneau, a professor in the Department of Geography at the Université du Québec à Montréal, explains.

Food security in northern communities

Published on September 8, 2022

Climate change is transforming ecosystems and therefore the food resources provided by natural environments. For the communities that depend on them, food security is at stake...

Children playing in the strrets of Kangiqsualujjuaq.

The challenge of carbon neutrality in Nunavik

Published on May 31, 2022

An article by Valérie Levée, science journalist

Constructing a carbon-neutral building in southern Quebec is already a challenge, imagine that in Nunavik. Yet it is a goal that Louis Gosselin, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Université Laval, is aiming for.