Kaktovik is located on the northern edge of Alaska, on the North Slope. The population of the village is about 280 inhabitants. This is where the figures for the Inupiaq were developed. Image: Google Maps Invented nearly 30 years ago by a group of Iñupiak students who...
Population of the Bering Strait where the Russian and American coasts are close to each other. Arctic Indigenous communities are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of the war in Ukraine. Image: Heiner Kubny. In the very first months of 2022, Russia invaded...
Julian Sancton’s Madhouse at the End of the Earth is also now available in French. In 1897, the Belgica left Antwerp with at its head Adrien de Gerlache, a young captain, Roald Amundsen, the future great explorer as second in command, an...
Tuberculosis hits Nunavut again. This time, it is in Pond Inlet with five active cases of TB and twenty-two latent cases. Image : Michael Wenger. A new tuberculosis (TB) epidemic has reached the community of Pond Inlet in Nunavut, Canada. This disease, contained in...
Polar bear plunge: Polar bears are fully equipped to face icy waters. A thick fur made up of two layers : one to keep the body warm and another of hollow hairs to repel water and stay dry. And under the skin, a thick layer of fat to protect the internal organs…...