News in Brief Could Arctic Cruises Spell Disaster for the Northwest Passage? Experts warn against sailing through the icy, Arctic waters before better regulations are put in place. By Kate… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Scenes From the End of the World Life on board a small cruise ship in the Northwest Passage. Eva Holland
News in Brief Cruising Through the End of the World What does an evolving tourism industry mean for the people of the Northwest Passage? Eva Holland
Environment One Last Dispatch 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. Eva Holland
Environment Russian Mammoth Pushes Back the Timeline for Humans in the Arctic Evidence shows humans killed the mammoth deep in the Arctic—45,000 years ago. Nathan Collins
Environment How Do You Take Down Two Tons of Blubber and Tusks? As warmer summers melt the Arctic, Pacific walruses have to work a lot harder to reach their seafloor feasts. Jason Bittel
Environment See an Open Northwest Passage From Space This month, the Arctic will likely have some of the lowest levels of ice on record. Francie Diep
Environment Five Things President Obama Could Do to Help the Arctic—Ground Zero for Climate Change A should-do list for the president's three-day trip to Alaska. Alisa Opar
Social Justice ‘The Last Pork Chop’: A Wild Northern Reading Guide The best books about the Northern wilderness and our place in it. Eva Holland
Environment Tweets From a Changing Arctic Interested in environmental issues in the North? Here are the Twitter users to follow. Eva Holland