The Indigenous community has observed and pursued narwhals for generations in Greenland. They believe it’s time that scientists and governments paid more attention. Sheets, or pans, of sea ice—some ...
The sun is slowly disappearing behind the cliffs towards Siorapaluk now it is gone midnight, leaving whale-shaped Herbert Island awash in crimson. It is mid-August and it is my very first evening in ...
Curator Genevieve LeMoine and Director Susan Kaplan initiated the Cape Sheridan Archaeology Project to learn more about the Inughuit participants in Robert E. Peary’s last two expeditions. This ...
Stephen Pax Leonard will soon swap the lawns, libraries and high tables of Cambridge University for three months of darkness, temperatures as low as -40C and hunting seals for food with a spear. But ...
London, England (CNN)-- A British anthropologist is setting out on a year-long stay with a small community in Greenland in an ambitious attempt to document its dying language and traditions. Stephen ...
Underwater passive acoustic recording is vital for researchers to monitor and study marine animals in their natural environment with minimal disturbance. "Using passive acoustic monitoring to detect ...
London, England (CNN)-- As inhospitable environments go, it doesn't get much trickier than living near the Arctic Circle where the temperature can plummet to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the permanent ...