Everyone who knows me knows I’m an armchair enthusiast of everything Northern. One entire section of the bookshelf in my library is devoted to books about Arctic wildlife, Arctic peoples and Arctic ...

Much of what is now considered modern medicine originated as folk remedies or traditional, Indigenous practices. These customs are still alive today, and they could help address a variety of ...

I often think about how I am connected to Alaska, particularly this spot in Southeast. It is an area that captivates both visually, physically, and in its unique smells. When I briefly lived in Majuro ...

Much of what is now considered modern medicine originated as folk remedies or traditional, Indigenous practices. These customs are still alive today, and they could help address a variety of ...

I stand at my friend’s stove in Sitka slowly stirring my winter harvest, a concoction of spruce needles and Labrador tea. People all over Sitka have a cough, and my friend is one of them, so I’m ...

Toronto (CTV Network) — A plant long used by Indigenous people for medicinal tea has been shown to be effective against the parasite that causes drug-resistant malaria. Labrador tea, which refers to ...

Janelle Marie Baker receives funding from ECCC, the Arctic Connections Fund, CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, and Athabasca University. Labrador Tea, fireweed, chokecherry and raspberry are some of the boreal ...

Climate change is altering the useful qualities of some plants, a Montreal botanist says, and changing the way some Indigenous people in northern Canada live. Alain Cuerrier, a University of Montreal ...