Arctic

A less icy Arctic will be an economic boon for some, but marine wildlife experts are focused on the increased risks more ships will pose to certain polar species.

• By Erica Cirino

Through a cycle of eight plays, Canadian playwright Chantal Bilodeau explores the inner lives of the Arctic's inhabitants during a time of dramatic change.

• By Sophie Yeo

Even smaller fishing boats are venturing deeper into the Arctic, an analysis finds.

• By Francie Diep

High above the rapidly warming Arctic Circle, the people of Clyde River are looking to nature and Inuit tradition in a bid to end the town's epidemic of despair and suicide.

• By Melody Schreiber

Scientists, government officials, and industry representatives from around the world are working to improve sea ice forecasting in the Arctic.

• By Gloria Dickie

Svend Erik had not intended to spend the last 37-odd years of his life permanently in Qaanaaq, stewarding critical data through decades of changes in computing and communications technologies, but he had fallen in love.

• By Elmo Keep

This year's thinner, slushier ice is more vulnerable than the past's thick, multi-year ice, and it melts out rapidly during a spike in temperature or intense cyclonic activity.

• By Gloria Dickie

Two writers with roots in Alaska talk landscape, identity, survival, and the problem with the term alpha male.

• By Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes

Life on board a small cruise ship in the Northwest Passage.

• By Eva Holland

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

• By Eva Holland

Evidence shows humans killed the mammoth deep in the Arctic—45,000 years ago.

• By Nathan Collins

As warmer summers melt the Arctic, Pacific walruses have to work a lot harder to reach their seafloor feasts.

• By Jason Bittel

This month, the Arctic will likely have some of the lowest levels of ice on record.

• By Francie Diep

A should-do list for the president's three-day trip to Alaska.

• By Alisa Opar

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

• By Eva Holland

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

• By Eva Holland

John Oliver is hilarious, but his Sunday night bit on pollution and polar bears’ penis bones is based on shaky science.

• By Tom Jacobs

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

• By Eva Holland

Stories about athletes with flawed character are endless, but what about those who exceed our expectations?

• By Sam Riches

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

• By Eva Holland

The Department of the Interior says there’s a 75 percent chance of a major oil spill in the Arctic—and it’s willing to take that chance.

• By Brian Palmer

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?

• By Eva Holland

In Edward Struzik's new book Future Arctic: Field Notes From a World on the Edge, he avoids the apocalyptic and offers a vision of how pragmatists could tackle some of the region's many environmental problems.

• By Noah Berlatsky