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Breaking the Ice

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International Polar Year breathes life into Arctic science 

By Jessa Sinclair

Photo by Paul Nickle

Photo by Paul Nickle

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Illustrations by Monika Melnychuk

Summertime! When the living is:

✓ Easy ✓ In a canoe ✓ Fun (in the midnight sun) ✓ Bug and bear infested ✓ All of the above

By Aaron Spitzer

Illustrations by Monika Melnychuk

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026

Tear Sheet

Published in Up Here Magazine May/June 1994

Better Late Than Never

The North’s weird, wonderful spring: you stow away the snowmobile and the skis, and then you wait

By Erik Watt

Published in Up Here Magazine May/June 1994

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026

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Learning to Fly

How fossils helped explain the development of flight as reptiles evolved into birds

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026

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Illustration by Catherine Holmes

Roswell North

A story spreading on the Internet like a meteor shower says 2000 Inuit disappeared after a mysterious light passed over their village in 1930. Is the truth out there?

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026

UP HERE - MAY/JUNE 2026

Photos by Rhiannon Russell

It’s Up Here’s Annual Education Special

Arviat Gets Its Campus, Kids Get Their Lunch and Grown-ups Get Outdoors

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026

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Photo by Wayne Lynch

Sounding the Trumpets of Spring

Just when you think winter will never end, the swans return to M'Clintock bay

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026

UP HERE - JAN/FEB 2026

Photos by Page Burt; Sam Kapolak

The Danger of Small Changes

She’s hot. He’s still cold. Global warming is upending the sex lives of arctic ground squirrels. That’s bad news for food chains

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026

UP HERE - NOV/DEC 2025

Photography by David Kakuktinniq

Day at the Beach

A photo essay by David Kakuktinniq

June 19th, 2026 June 19th, 2026
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