‘Arctic gene’ that poses risks when fasting is found in many...
Thousands of years of a diet with lots of animal fats and sparse carbohydrates left a mark on the DNA of Native people of...
New permafrost map shows areas in Alaska vulnerable to thaw-induced collapses
A new map of northern hemisphere permafrost identifies the areas that are most vulnerable to thawing and slumping.
The map shows which regions in the circumpolar north...
6 scientists, 1,000 miles, 1 prize: The Arctic Alaska Bumblebee
DALTON HIGHWAY, Alaska —
“To bees, time is honey.”
— Bernd Heinrich, “Bumblebee Economics”
One hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, by the side of a...
How Greenland’s ice is melting from both above and below
There were no scientists around circa 11,000 years ago, when the great Laurentide Ice Sheet, which once covered much of present day North America,...
There’s a walrus haulout near Point Lay again, but it’s begun...
Pacific walruses have started to gather on an Arctic beach in Northwest Alaska, continuing what has become a near-annual ritual for the animals living...
Yukon’s climate, notoriously cold in Gold Rush days, is transforming
In the days of poet Robert Service more than a century ago, Canada’s Yukon territory was almost as notorious for its fierce cold as it...
