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For Erlingur B. Thoroddsen, it all began with a love of the midnight sun and the desire to frame it. Thoroddsen came to northeastern Iceland because he loved…

Soriina Davidsen and her coworker, Vera Larsen, spend long days here cutting, stitching and talking. The pair have formed a friendship – and a business – over sealskin, a material central…

Everyone lives on a small military base that dates back to World War II, though its first meteorological station was established in 1921. Today, the base is…

I’m sitting at a patio table with two of Nunavut’s foremost language experts, Leena Evic and Eva Aariak. We’re in Eva’s backyard drinking tea, eating homemade cookies and talking about the internet. And they’re about to blow my mind. The Inuktitut word for internet, “ikiaqqijjut,” is often translated as “the tool to travel through layers.”…

Johannes Eyberg Ragnarsson (Eyberg) and his wife Gudlaug Sigurdardottir (Lauga) make farming look easy. When I visited, they had 100 sheep, 30 dairy cows, 32 calves and a few cattle that they…

Mathew Nuqingaq is a well-known jeweler. He calls himself The Metal Guy, and his creations range from rings and earrings to elaborate works of metal and stone. He buys…

In Iceland fresh lamb is only available in the fall so the annual sheep run in mid-September is like a second Christmas. Farmers looked for their own sheep and coaxed them into pens, called dilkur, that surrounded the circle like…

When I work as a guide on ships, the Arctic sounds different to me than it used to; it’s harder to find the atmosphere I first fell in love with when I paddled…

Seaweed from the cold water of Davis Strait is clean and plentiful. A couple of times a week during the summer, Maki drives his small boat 15-20km (9-12 miles) away…

The day I met Tukumminnguaq Olsen, she took me to the monument in Sisimiut, Greenland, dedicated to her great grandfather, Gustav Olsen. He was a Greenlandic missionary…