Arctic

A majority of Greenland's ice sheet is experiencing above-freezing temperatures this week, which could cause record melting and raise global sea levels.

The drought has had damaging economic and ecological impacts.

An art therapy project in an Alaska Native village helps teens talk about suicide in their community.

As hunting grows hazardous, Arctic community centers provide meals of whale and seal.

A new study lends insight into how domestication of our four-legged companions was steered by interactions with humans and their cultural practices.

Arctic ice north of Greenland that normally remains frozen even during the summer has opened up.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

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.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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