The World’s Northernmost Town Is Changing Dramatically
Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Arctic
How Not to Deal With Murder in Space
A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now.
My Midlife Crisis as a Russian Sailor
A trip into the Arctic.
Into the Abyss
How the Lyubov Orlova became the infamous “cannibal-rat ghost ship.”
Born to Be Eaten
What’s at stake in the fight over development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? A caribou herd, and a culture that relies on it.
Marooned Among the Polar Bears
A helicopter pilot crash-lands in the Arctic.
Rotten Ice
Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic.
The Wreck of the Kulluk
Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.
The Spoil of Mariners
The Arctic, sailors and scurvy.
Marooned at the End of the World
In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.
