Dispatches From a Changing Arctic

The North is a dynamic, fast-changing region, one that lives up to its stereotypes one day and then utterly confounds them the next.

Alaska's capital city is surrounded by ocean and glaciers, with no roads in or out. Waste management? It's complicated.

One Yukon scientist is working on a homegrown solution to the heavy metals left behind by mining operations.

In the Northwest Territories, remote towns depend on their frozen highways.

Canadians voted for change this week. What does that mean for the North?

A Yukon photographer uses his camera to tell stories about the wilderness.

The fate of a wilderness area the size of Ireland will be decided in a Yukon courtroom.

The fate of a wilderness area the size of Ireland will be decided in a Yukon courtroom.

The best books about the Northern wilderness and our place in it.

Researchers in the Yukon are working on ways to mitigate damage from the big thaw.

Schemes to bring Alaska’s water—frozen and otherwise—south to thirsty California and beyond are more than a century old.

Rangers at North America’s tallest mountain tackle a major mess.

Foraging for wild brewing ingredients in beer-crazy Alaska.

Our columnist rides along on a halibut-tagging cruise in Alaska.

Interested in environmental issues in the North? Here are the Twitter users to follow.

In the Yukon, entrepreneurs and researchers wrestle with a question: Can high-tech greenhouses help tackle food security in the North?

Resistance to a proposed oil tanker route off British Columbia’s lush northern coast is about more than NIMBYism.

There's a hybrid bear roaming the Arctic—and as the sea ice melts, scientists expect more inter-species breeding to come.

As long as environmental groups oppose hunting, eating, and wearing seal, there’s little chance of trust and cooperation with Canada’s Inuit.

Snow accumulation in and around Anchorage is about 30 inches below average for this time of year, and it’s affecting daily life in the area.

Did Big Oil learn anything from the financial and near-environmental disaster that was the grounding of Shell’s Arctic drill ship in 2012? And will they be able to apply those lessons now that oil prices are plummeting?

The first in a new series of reported stories from Alaska and the three Canadian northern territories documenting how the region is responding as it increasingly becomes the focus of global debates over climate change, territorial claims, resource industries, and more.