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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
An iceberg floats in the Atlantic Ocean, April 26, 2017 off the coast of Port Kirwan, Newfoundland, Canada. Icebergs break off from Baffin Island and Greenland every spring and drift down the stretch of water along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador known as Iceberg Alley. According to media reports, the higher number of icebergs this season can be attributed to uncommonly strong counter-clockwise winds that draw the icebergs south and possibly global warming, which could be making Greenland's ice sheet melt faster.
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
Looking down into the lava lake
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
The 73-mile-long Inuvik-Aklavik Ice Road forms each year when the Mackenzie River freezes over.
roads

Canada's Ice Roads Are Melting Too Soon

Climate change is fraying these seasonal lifelines, causing hardships for the remote towns that rely on them.
Karen Gardiner August 23, 2019
Soup set to be disinterred in 1980, 2000, and 2050.
exploration

The Quest to Find a Lost Arctic Explorer’s Buried Soup

An "Arctic mystery" may lead to a future of food under the permafrost.
Tal McThenia August 19, 2019
The Coldfoot Post Office, where your bartender might be the postmaster.
Coldfoot, Alaska

Coldfoot Camp

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.
Ruins of a blubber oven in Smeerenburg.
Amsterdam Island, Norway

Smeerenburg Blubber Ovens

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.
The Arctic Circle Sign.
Alaska

Arctic Circle Monument Sign

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.
Kesha the "fox."
Barentsburg, Norway

Barentsburg

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.