Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
REXSAC in cooperation with Toxic legacies project, Nordic museum, SEI, the Environmental Humanities Laboratory and APECS invites you to a film showing on March 28th at the Nordic museum.
Gardians of Eternity, film. Directed by France Benoit, 2015.
Guardians of Eternity (dir. France Benoit, 2015) is a startling film that documents the impact of arsenic pollution from an abandoned gold mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories on adjacent Yellowknives Dene First Nations communities. It has been over a decade since the mine closed and community members struggle today with the question of what to do with 237,000 tons of arsenic trioxide dust stored underground at the site. They also consider how to warn future generations of the toxic dangers at the old mine and communicate the perpetual care activities that will be required to contain the waste
Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities (REXSAC) is a Nordic Centre of Excellence and an interdisciplinary research environment aimed at providing new thinking about sustainable development, with a focus on Arctic mining.
SEI brief / The Wetlands in Sápmi project strengthens understanding of wetlands’ role in the reindeer husbandry of forest Sámi communities with Indigenous knowledge.
SEI brief / Nature-based solutions must be designed to deliver measurable benefits for nature and society. The different dimensions of scale could be better incorporated.
Other publication / The authors present key findings and policy recommendations to protect Arctic wetlands, as wildlife habitats, carbon storage and more.
