The Yukon Territory glows—but not with city lights. “Everywhere you look is like a painting” here, with auroras that last for ...

The one-mile creek, located on a largely uninhabited island, had been given its name during World War II after the Americans ...

The US tried to include Greenland in the Alaska Purchase in 1867, so one could argue that Denmark and the US have been ...

Researchers analyzed ancient and modern genetic samples of the Greenlandic Qimmit breed to shed light on the long ...

The weather is good. The world’s cultures have a great variety of beliefs about the sky. Tlingit people see the sky as an ...

We take a look back at some of the oldest dog breeds, with expert commentary from a Kennel Club historian and PDSA nurse.

We’ve rounded up some facts about Alaskan Malamutes. Their majestic double coats are their hallmark, enabling them not only to survive in the tough, freezing environments of their native Alaska but ...

Pharaonic military projects, each stretching for more than 3,000 miles, reflected deep Cold War fears that the Arctic was the ...

German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name ...

A study published on July 10 in the journal Science maps the path of Greenland sled dogs from their ancient origins to the present day. Researchers sequenced the genomes of 92 dogs from regions of ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a ...

Greenland sled dogs, known asQimmeq in Greenlandic, have long played a vital role in the Arctic, assisting Inuit people in ...