Polar bears are less fearsome than we think, says biologist Stephen Smith. And he should know: He’s squared off with them, eye to eye…
Written by Stephen Smith
Photo courtesy Stephen Smith
Placer miners in the Yukon are churning out ice age bones at an industrial rate
Written by Daniel Campbell
Paleontologist Elizabeth Hall stands on an exposure of permafrost at a placer mine, where Ice Age mammal bones are typically found. Photo courtesy of Government of Yukon
It may be the Arctic's rarest, most fearsome animal, and it's never been photographed on the ground. Only a select group of elite hunters have gotten close enough to take a shot. Then Kelsey Eliasson came along.
Written by Kelsey Eliasson
Illustrations by Monika Melnychuk
She fights for nature and for human rights. Now she's showing others how to keep fighting
Written by Samia Madwar
COURTESY CANADA'S ECOFISCAL COMMISSION
Hit the right spots; if you know where to go, you're golden.
Written by Daniel Campbell
THE BEST SPOTS IN THE NWT
Climate change is allowing biting flies to move farther North, partly because it’s getting warmer, and partly because it’s raining more often in the summer, creating more soggy breeding grounds.
Written by Up Here
Illustration by Tonia Cowan
How to dive into an iceberg, swim with canaries of the sea, avoid seamonsters in the Arctic—and much more. Take a plunge into our 15 top watery Northern getaways.
Written by Up Here
Alexandra Falls is one of several highlights of the Mackenzie Highway waterfall route. Photo by Adam Hill
Why permafrost is the scariest, most thrilling thing in the Arctic
Written by Samia Madwar
That's the way the coast crumbles: A collapsed block of permafrost on the coast of Alaska, releasing stored carbon from frozen decomposing organic matter into the water.
Big changes are coming-one shoot at a time
Written by Lesley Evans Ogden
