Shungnak’s 225kW solar array (Photo: Agneto) Make hay while the sun shines, goes the old saw. In the North, it is not hay, but electricity that communities would like to produce during its sun-rich, but fleeting summer. For, if it were possible to store all that...
The Eskimo yoyo is just one of the things the women make in the studio. It is a traditional toy of the Iñupiat, the Siberian Yupiks in Alaska, the Yup’ik and other indigenous peoples of Alaska. It is considered one of the simplest and at the same time most...
Solid aerosols are formed when ammonium sulfate emitted from the ocean collides with liquid particles. This can change cloud formation and thus the climate in the Arctic. Illustration: Andrew Ault and Matt Gunsch The Arctic is affected by global warming like no other...
Where the reindeer and the oilmen play (Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service) Even before President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he would be banning imports of Russian energy — and at the same time warning Americans that they could expect prices to soar beyond...
The Klondike gold rush swept almost the entire world from 1896 onwards and caused a run on the far north of Canada and Alaska, which in the end brought the hoped-for fortune to only a few. Thousands died of cold, hunger, exhaustion or were killed. Images: Library and...
