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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Igloo” is derived from the Inuit word “igdlu” meaning “house.” It should actually be used to describe any Inuit or Eskimo dwelling, regardless of its construction. In the Eskimo culture, igloo ...

Ask almost any experienced igloo builder and he'll tell you that igloo construction is something everyone can learn to do. Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the ...

Inuit usually built their winter villages on sea ice in order to be as close as possible to their food sources—fish, seals, and whales. They looked for areas on the ice that provided some buffer ...