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...
