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The Arctic hare BBYY traveled more than 240 miles during a seven-week period in 2019.
science

What Energized This Arctic Hare to Keep Going and Going and Going?

The animal known as BBYY traveled hundreds of miles, breaking records and shattering expectations.
Gemma Tarlach February 1, 2022
cemeteries

Podcast: Beechey Island Graves Part 2

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team December 30, 2021
cemeteries

Podcast: Beechey Island Graves Part 1

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team December 29, 2021
Researchers took samples from the new island during a July 2020 expedition.
islands

The Northernmost Island in the World Was Just Discovered by Accident

It remains to be seen whether it will stick around.
Sarah Durn September 8, 2021
Part of a portable nuclear power plant arrives at Camp Century in 1960.
secret

The U.S. Army Tried Portable Nuclear Power at Remote Bases 60 Years Ago

It didn't go well.
Paul Bierman August 30, 2021
In a satellite image of the Greenland Ice Sheet's southwestern corner, captured on August 21, 2021, pale blue meltwater streams across ice or collects in slushy depressions. The deeper blue areas are meltwater lakes with depths up to about 30 feet.
glaciers

Ghostly Satellite Image Captures the Arctic ‘Losing Its Soul’

In the aftermath of an extreme melt event, what do scientists see in the Greenland Ice Sheet’s swirls of white, blue, and ominous gray?
Gemma Tarlach August 27, 2021
cemeteries

Podcast: Beechey Island Graves Part 2

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 24, 2021
The face of The Usurper, <em>B. hyperboreus</em>, a parasitic bumblebee that lives above the Arctic Circle.
science

What’s Up With Alaska’s Wild, Wondrous, ‘Warm-Blooded’ Bumblebees?

Extreme environments offer them an unexpected paradise, and now researchers want to get a head count.
Gemma Tarlach June 23, 2021
cemeteries

Podcast: Beechey Island Graves Part 1

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 23, 2021
Narwhals swimming at the surface near Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic.
animals

The Tales Layered Inside Narwhal Tusks

An analysis of the 10-foot-long appendages shows that as the Arctic warms, narwhal diets are changing, and their bodies are accumulating more mercury.
Matt Simon April 19, 2021
Amid ice and tundra, the lighter Hayes River flows from the northeast (top right) into the dark Back River in Nunavut, Canada, but remains distinct from it for 10 miles.
science

Why Two Rivers Meet But Don't Mix in the Canadian Arctic

The Back River remains visually distinct from its tributary, the Hayes River, for several miles after their confluence.
Charlene Pinckney Goldberg April 14, 2021
Smaller icebergs can shape-shift, and end up rolling or flipping.
ships

The Iceberg Trackers Keeping an Eye on the Ocean's Behemoths

As well as smaller bergs that can be more dangerous to ships.
Luna Shyr March 10, 2021
The black material found on the final page of Brønlund's diary.
exploration

A Mysterious Black Spot Offers Clues to a Doomed Explorer's Last Moments

Jørgen Brønlund's diary contained information that wasn't written on the page.
Luna Shyr December 18, 2020
This aerial photograph shows the scale of sea ice environment where it meets the Arctic Ocean. Somewhere within this expanse of water, an umiaq must intercept a bowhead whale within 3 yards.
animals

As the Arctic Warms, the Iñupiat Adapt

"What choice do we have?"
Atlas Obscura August 6, 2020
List

History Tour: Adventures at the Poles

The race to the ends of the Earth, in 14 remarkable places.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 27, 2020
An etching of the expedition
Edinburgh, Scotland

Grave of Lieutenant John Irving

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.
Ellesmere Island today has no trees.
science

The Canadian Arctic Probably Once Looked Like Present-Day Florida

Fossil plants millions of years old are helping scientists imagine an ancient Arctic forest.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 2, 2020
The sushi selection at Charoen Porn includes mattak (whale skin).
food

In Greenland, Thai Restaurants Serve Whale Skin Sushi and Reindeer Pad Krapow

A large immigrant community has made their cuisine popular.
Katie Lockhart September 30, 2019