New tool tranlsates Inuit syllabics into Latin alphabet
A Canadian technology company has created a Google extension that will allow people to convert Inuit language syllabics into Roman
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How did climate affect ancient wildlife in Arctic Alaska?
For about 1,000 years at the end of the last ice age, the woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses and
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Ancient Alaska remains suggest ice-age diversity
Two ice-age infants discovered in Interior Alaska left a genetic record that suggests ancient culture in this part of the
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Blog:Put up or shut up with your Arctic Conflict Theory
The Arctic is on the verge of conflict; so the theory goes. Melting ice is uncovering a trove of riches,
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Eroding Arctic coastline reveals human bones
As Arctic Ocean waves from summer and fall storms eat away at Barrow’s bluffs, they take land from the living — and
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Blog: Field notes from Russia
In summer above the Arctic Circle, the sun does not set. This phenomenon, generally called the Polar Day, is referred
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Science, politics and the ‘dreaded’ raccoon dog: Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Blog: Chinese naval ships near Aleutians
A few days ago, the U.S. Navy reported that it had detected five Chinese naval ships near the Aleutian Islands.
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Ancient virus found in Arctic permafrost
Scientists have found a previously unknown giant virus in the permafrost of Siberia, a discovery they say is worrying at
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Russia explores sunken American naval vessel
Divers from the Northern Fleet are salvaging weapons and equipment from the American ship “Thomas Donaldson”, which sank after a
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Russia cleaning up scrap metal on Arctic coast
Russia’s Northern Fleet has established a special unit which is cleaning up the huge amounts of scrap metal left rusting
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Feature Interview: Canadian artist explores Greenland’s past
Jessica Auer, a Canadian visual artist based in Montreal, Quebec, still remembers the first time she visited L’Anse aux Meadows
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Blog: Back to the future – An Arctic conference in 1979
On a dusty shelf in the library at my university, I came across a volume entitled Marine Transportation and High
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Searchers return to Alaska glacier to recover remains from 1952 military plane crash
A team of military searchers, anthropologists and mountaineers is once again trying to turn back the clock on the crash of
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New evidence of prehistoric trade with Asia found at Alaska site
Four years ago, archaeologists announced they had found evidence on the Alaska side of the Bering Strait of trade with
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