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A new study suggests at least four pulses of migration from Siberia (pictured above) to Alaska took place during the last Ice Age. (iStock)

Study sheds light on peopling of the Arctic

Steve Heimel, APRN - Anchorage
Posted: Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 15:46 — Last Updated: Friday, September 5, 2014 at 20:03
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Archaeologists have been arguing for decades about how human beings got to the new world, and genetic research released today

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – The muskox economy

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 13:45 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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“I just had muskox Thai curry at the only restaurant in town,” I messaged my friend after dinner one night

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – From the glacier to the sea

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 20:45 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is constantly in flux and is far from static. The world’s second largest body of ice

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – The road to the ice

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 13:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 81 percent of the country’s terrain and is the second-largest body of ice in the

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – A glacier calves

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 11:40 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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Part of Russell Glacier just east of the road from Kangerlussuaq up to the ice sheet collapsed into the river

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Ice-Blog: Polar melt confirmed from space

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, August 22, 2014 at 18:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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I am disappointed that there was so little mainstream media coverage (please correct me if I am wrong) of a

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland: The way to Kanger

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 15:54 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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Though Greenland may seem to be one of the most remote places on earth, it’s quite centrally located within the

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – Day 1

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 13:22 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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In popular imaginings, the Greenland ice sheet is one big, white, flat, frozen piece of ice. That perception is natural

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First ‘luxury’ cruise ship will sail Arctic passage

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 18, 2014 at 10:47
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A U.S. cruise company plans to send a luxury cruise ship through the Northwest Passage in August 2016. It would

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Ice-Blog: Human action speeds glacial melting

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, August 18, 2014 at 09:24 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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It might sound like stating the obvious, but in fact it is not easy to find clear evidence that human

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Blog: The new Arctic real estate boom – Tromso, Norway

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 15:39
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In 2010, I went to Nuuk, Greenland for the first time. And I was surprised that as soon as people

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Blog: ICC General Assembly 2014 – Arctic governance

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 15:54
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There was an interesting session Tuesday morning at the Inuit Circumpolar Council General Assembly in Canada’s Northwest Territories concerning Arctic

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Ice-Blog: Arctic birds breeding earlier

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, June 27, 2014 at 15:59 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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Migratory birds that breed in the Arctic are starting to nest earlier in spring because the snow melt is occurring

Screenshot of the new Pan-Inuit Trails Atlas. (http://www.paninuittrails.org)

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Blog: Interactive atlas shows Inuit trails

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, June 16, 2014 at 10:28 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33

Last week, a new atlas was released documenting the network of pan-Inuit trails crisscrossing the Arctic from Alaska to Greenland.

Food security is an issue in communities across the North. Here, Pauline Kadjuk, 1, is carried in a Amautik by her mother Brittany Ikulik, middle, while paying for groceries at the Northern store in the small town of Baker Lake, Nunavut. (Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press)

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Blog: Addressing northern food insecurity

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Monday, June 9, 2014 at 15:22
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The challenge of northern food security is not new, but awareness on the issue has been growing, thanks to efforts