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April/May 2019

When A Sacred Tree Falls, Everyone Hears About It

After a windstorm topples the Yellowknives Dene's hallowed conifer, the First Nation comes together to decide its future.

Written by Jeremy Warren

Illo by Beth Covvey

March 2019

Cold Snaps

A proud puppy races alongside his family, the great grey owl’s piercing gaze, a stoic wolf exuding calm—the moments captured by Up Here readers in our annual photo contest speak for themselves.

Written by Up Here

PHOTO BY MASAYA KOYANAGI

January/February 2019

A Trip Back In Time

Searching for the origins of life on the Coppermine River.

Written by Vivien Cumming

PHOTO BY Vivien Cumming

January/February 2019

Landscapes of Plenty

The lands of the North defy logic.

Written by Elaine Anselmi, Herb Mathisen, Jeremy Warren, Jessica Davey-Quantick, Katharine Sandiford

PHOTO BY PETER MATHER

December 2018

A Weakened Jet Stream

How the Arctic figures in southern fires and floods

Written by Elaine Anselmi

PHOTO BY UP HERE

October/November 2018

Bear Aware

The hair necessities of tracking grizzlies on the tundra

Written by Elaine Anselmi

Photo Courtesy Diavik Diamond Mines

December 2018

Brains On Ice

How space hoses and glacier snuggies could keep the Earth cool

Written by Elaine Anselmi

Illo by Beth Covvey

December 2018

The Ultimate Survivor

Greenland sharks live for centuries, but we have no idea how the changing planet affects them

Written by Herb Mathisen

PHOTO BY ADOBE STOCK

December 2018

Vanishing Point

Living with the consequences of climate change in Tuktoyaktuk

Written by Weronika Murray

PHOTO BY WERONIKA MURRAY

October/November 2018

Curious Coats Island

With three glaring absences—human settlements, snow geese and lemmings—this giant island is an oddity of the Arctic.

Written by Émile Brisson-Curadeau

Photos by Émile Brisson-Curadeau

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