2019-09-01_National_Geographic_Interactive

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RIGHT The Zimovs believe that large grazing ani- mals helped maintain rich Arctic grasslands during the Ice Age, in part by fert ...

small plots, track others remotely, and draw inferences about the rest—unlike Arctic sea ice, which can be measured in its entir ...

The village of Newtok, Alaska, population 380, is sinking as the permafrost beneath it thaws. On a summer bird hunt, four Yupik ...

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by 2050, and develop technologies to suck huge quantities back out of the atmosphere. The challenge may be even starker. The 1.5 ...

With willows now tall enough to poke through snow, snowshoe hares can find winter food and hiding spots all the way to the Arcti ...

across, plastered with mud and moss and sit- ting in a waist-high lake surrounded by marsh. The water had been diverted from the ...

LEFT For thousands of years, Inupiat villagers along Alaska’s North Slope have hunted bowhead whales. A single whale can feed a ...

He and, eventually, Nikita fenced in wild horses and later trucked in yaks and sheep from Lake Baikal. This past spring Nikita h ...

stay substantially cooler than the ground in the surrounding area. The gap between the Zimovs’ ambitions and the reality of the ...

BY HEATHER PRINGLE UNCOVERING AN ARCTIC MYSTERY H.M.S. Terror, one of two ships from the doomed Franklin expedi- tion, was disco ...

little. The crew was young, tough, and seasoned. The ships, sheathed in iron, bristled with the latest Victorian-era technology— ...

Relics from the lost expedition include these, found in 1859 in an abandoned boat on King William Island: blue-tinted snow goggl ...

Canadian science writer Heather Pringle special- izes in archaeology. Her forthcoming book on the Vikings will be published by N ...

104 EYES ON THE ICE BY JENNIFER KINGSLEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY ESTHER HORVATH IN GREENLAND, RESEARCHERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD DOCUMENT ...

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Soldiers and researchers come together for a pig roast and game night. Competitors try to put a jousting lance through a small r ...

summer there’s so much dust from blowing winds, it coats your teeth. Station Nord also has a political purpose, which is why it’ ...

Lunch next to an iceberg on the sea ice is a hurried affair with temperatures below minus 30°F. Research- ers rehydrate freeze- ...