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Arctic Women Ruled by Taboos

Trucking Cold on Siberia's Winter Roads

Feeding Frenzy in the Arctic

South Pole Tourism

The Emperors of Snow Hill

Dogs of the
Snow and Ice

Arctic Meltdown

A Reindeer in the Family

Jokkmokk Winter Market

Horses under the Whispering Stars

NORILSK. Pollution Capital of the Arctic

Moose Medicine

500 Years of Russian Vodka

Shishmaref

It’s minus 14° C (+7°F) in Shishmaref and unseasonably warm for a January day. You might think that for an Arctic community where the surrounding sea remains frozen for seven months a year, a little global warming might be welcome, but for the 600 Inupiaq Eskimos who live in this small and isolated Alaskan village, climate change is threatening their community.