BACKGROUND REPORTING
Jenn Thornhill Verma’s reporting explores our key themes.
Read more of her work here.
Unsettled: How Inuit Are Adapting to Climate Change, Which is Affecting Coastlines in Canada’s Far North
The Globe and Mail’s series funded by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. This series secured gold at the Canadian Association of Journalists awards for Environmental and Climate Change reporting, silver at the Digital Publishing Awards for Best Topical Reporting: Climate Change, and was nominated for the Canadian Journalism Foundation Award for Climate Solutions Reporting.
Pulitzer Center - December 18, 2024
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The Decibel - The Globe and Mail Daily podcast- Published May 16, 2025
How Labrador Inuit are adapting to a warming world
Jenn Thornhill Verma, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Ocean Reporting Fellow, takes The Decibel to the northeastern Labrador Inuit region of Nunatsiavut. We hear from Inuit elders on how their communities are innovating and adapting new technology to fight climate change.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
The Globe and Mail - Published December 10, 2024
On thin ice
Arctic sea ice routes are a vital connector for Labrador Inuit peoples. As the ice begins to melt, old traditions fuse with innovation to fight climate change
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The Globe and Mail - Published December 18, 2024
Inuit scientists adapt as climate change threatens sea life and food security
For Inuit, home is where the harvest is. But rapidly changing ice conditions in the North are threatening fishing practices
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The Globe and Mail - Published December 10, 2024
Labrador Inuit have dozens of words to describe sea ice travel. Hear them all here.
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The Globe and Mail - Published April 24, 2022
This fishing captain is combining Inuit knowledge with scientific expertise to fight climate change in the Far North
Using a traditional spear and modern ice sensors, Inuk fishing captain Joey Angnatok is part of a global effort to monitor the effects of climate change in the Far North
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Literary Review of Canada - Published May 2024
Their beautiful Land
Book review, Avanimiut: A History of Inuit Independence in Northern Labrador
Two four-year-old boys, Kleophas and Jeremiah, in Nain, Labrador, around 1930.
Memorial University of Newfoundland; Archives and Special Collections