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.

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily ...

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

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 the harshest of environments. But new DNA analysis of both modern and ancient ...

A new study in Science uses ancient and modern DNA to tell the Qimmeq’s story. It’s a story not just about dogs, but also ...