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 in eastern Greenland forbid their ...

Navigating climate-change-induced ice loss while hunting? There’s an app for that. Inuit hunters now have a new tool at their disposal, thanks to a melding of indigenous knowledge with tech and ...

A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization called Inuit Sila is based in Copenhagen and has been defending ...

Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed seal near its breathing hole on the Greenland ice. In his white camouflage, he slowly crept towards it then lay down in the snow and waited. When the ...

Humans are considered the most adaptable species on Earth, but within that, certain people stand out for their resilience to extreme environments. The Arctic doesn’t leave much room for careless ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Images recently posted to social media are raising concerns in Baker Lake about caribou waste. They appear to show more than 50 ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, a new online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The air is calm this Arctic morning as ...

In April 2018, the Trump administration announced Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was open for business. By June, two Alaska Native Regional Corporations and a small oil company had already ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. The small island of Igloolik, in northern Canada is a bewildering place in the winter. The average temperature hovers at ...