Features
Save The Sandpiper's Dance
How climate change is destroying one bird's tundra dance floor
Buff-breasted sandpiper. Photo by courtesy Ronan Dugan
Worst. Jobs. Ever?
You spend months at a time getting swarmed by bugs, or chasing fire, or being stalked by wolves. For some intrepid Northerners, that’s just about the best way to spend a summer.
Illustration by Beth Covvey
Rush Hour
Our Arctic Moment for July/August
Just For Fungi
Wisdom and warnings on mushroom picking in the North
Shaggy mane, orange delicious, oyster mushrooms. Illustrations by Beth Covvey
Finding The Words
Indigenous languages are in decline. Every single one. But across the North, teachers and learners are dead set on keeping them alive because when a language is lost, we lose more than just a way of speaking.
Language learning and teaching has long been a priority of the Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute. These Gwich’in terms are from their dictionary, prepared in 2003. Photo by Peter Mather
