IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory ” Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water too, ...

On a remote fjord in northwest Greenland, traditional Inuit hunting techniques are being used to affix tiny, high-tech satellite transmitters onto narwhals — a kind of Arctic whale famous for its long ...

This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — On a bitter late September day ...

Two tourists from Turkey were in Arctic Bay to document the effects of climate change and to photograph polar bears in the Nunavut territory recently, but wound up in hot water with the locals when ...

So much so that the Indigenous hunters of the Scoresby Sound in eastern Greenland forbid their children from throwing pebbles into the water lest they spook the spiral-tusked whales. Taught to hunt by ...

Subsistence hunting and fishing are always a contentious issue within the state of Alaska, but now the International Whaling Commission has stomped on the necks or should I say dinner tables of the ...

Located inside the Arctic Circle in the central part of West Greenland, the property contains the remains of 4,200 years of human history. It is a cultural landscape which bears witness to its ...

Ittoqqortoormiit (Denmark) (AFP) – To hunt the narwhal, whose long tusk was the unicorn horn of medieval myth, you need absolute silence. So much so that the Indigenous hunters of the Scoresby Sound ...