DNA study casts fresh light on the diet of earliest Greenlanders
When scientists dig through the trash left behind by prehistoric cultures to determine things such as diet, their assessment is typically based on visual...
Iceland is mysteriously free of mosquitoes—for now, anyway
They suck your blood and buzz annoyingly around your ears. Their itchy bites can turn a festive barbecue miserable or ruin a bucolic walk...
Here’s how much of the Arctic you’re personally responsible for melting
Dirk Notz calculates that for every person who drives a car 1,000 miles or takes a round-trip flight from New York to London, three...
Denmark’s ambitious Arctic research strategy is light on funding
Denmark is to become “one of the world’s leading Arctic-research nations,” according a new strategy unveiled by that country’s science minister.
Among the proposals put...
‘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...
