Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered...
No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing in the United States each year.
There are estimates. In 2019, 8,162 Indigenous...
Is a polar bear eating reindeer normal behavior — or the...
Recently, scientists in Hornsund, Svalbard — a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean — witnessed a polar bear pursuing a reindeer into the sea...
Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a...
U.S. startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of...
2 NASA scientists explain what’s driving overall Arctic sea ice decline
September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum, when sea ice over the Northern Hemisphere...
The Arctic Council has weathered 25 years of bumpy Russia-Western relations...
For generations, the Arctic has captured our imaginations as a region of contradictions. It is simultaneously a frozen wilderness, home to Indigenous peoples, a...
What does it mean to be ‘true north strong and free?’...
From the national anthem to the Toronto Raptors (#WeTheNorth), Canada is frequently framed as a northern country, its citizens a northern people. But what...
How Europe’s ban on seal products turned frontier communities into pariahs
In the 1970s, a sustained campaign convinced much of the world that protesters were saving cuddly seals from murderous killers near the Arctic Circle....
Swiss-Danish expedition finds the world’s northernmost island
We were a team of five from the Leister Expedition Around North Greenland 2021, a Swiss-Danish scientific expedition, that landed on the island in...
Record-breaking winter winds have blown old Arctic sea ice into the...
An unusual pattern of winds drove old Arctic sea ice into a precarious position in the winter of 2020. Now in warming waters, large...
This week shows security will continue to compete with climate for...
As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled home from the Reykjavik Arctic Council ministerial meeting — and his first direct talks with his...
