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...
The 30,000-year-old mummified Arctic ground squirrel found near Dawson City will be on display at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre beginning in May 2023. (Photo: Government of Yukon) Canada’s Yukon paleontologists have unveiled an unusual find from the...
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...
Past, present and future: The pilgrimage church of Nôtre-Dame de Valère and the ruins of Tourbillon (center) tower above Sion, while in front the future stands with an “Energypolis” building and in the background the glacier and snow-covered mountains of...
A Landsat-8 image of Thwaites Glacier. It is one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise. Photo: NASA/USGS Marks in the seafloor dating from the last ice age show that ice sheets can retreat up to 600 meters per day during a warming climate, according to...