Check out our most recent story on Arctic Deeply. As luck would have it, Meet the North bumped into local artist Mathew Nuqingaq during a short stop in Iqaluit. Take a tour of his workshop as he explains his passion for creating jewelry and all things metal. In the shop, I noticed a man with a kind face and…
Come along with Arctic Deeply as it continues its journey through Iceland. Stop on the way to meet the owners of a small family dairy farm working in an increasingly tourism driven economy. The lush hayfields look so natural it’s easy to overlook the expertise it takes to grow such a crop in a cool, rainy climate where windstorms blow…
Embark with Arctic Deeply as it makes its way into Iceland. Meet one family as they celebrate the annual Skaftholtsrettir, or sheep round up, in the small municipality of Gnupverjahreppur. “The rettir is like a second Christmas,” said Olga Andreason, the matriarch of Minni-Mastunga farm located about 7 kilometers (4 miles) away. Her six kids and several of…
Join Arctic Deeply as it learns about the kelp business in Sisimiut, Greenland. Meet Maki Ulrik Lybert as he works to revive this traditional food source. Maki had been a schoolteacher for more than 20 years when he envisioned a new business centered on seaweed. In Western Greenland, it’s common to have various jobs throughout the course of one’s…
Follow along with Arctic Deeply as it takes its first steps in Sisimiut, Greenland. The past and present come together as Meet the North is invited into Tukumminnguaq Olsen’s home for a family meal. I asked Tuku for a recommendation on who to meet next in order to get a better understanding of Greenlandic life (I’m fascinated by the…
In the second of our Arctic Deeply stories, meet Joachim Myhrvang, a miner working in Svalbard, Norway. Follow along with him as he heads below ground for a day of work. At 7 a.m., Monday to Friday, Myhrvang enters Mine 7, pours himself a cup of coffee, and walks through the door from the clean zone into…
Meet the North’s series with Arctic Deeply has begun. The first segment is called “When Coal Leaves Center Stage in Longyearbyen” Have a read – discover the singers and miners who keep Svalbard going. It was below freezing inside the derelict mining building that looked down over Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Coal dust powdered the wooden floor….
Last summer, Jim Napoli on the National Geographic Explorer captured rare footage of a male chasing, killing, and eating a cub. The video we made is now out on National Geographic. This is life in the Arctic, as Wade Davis says here, but viewer discretion is advised. You can’t unwatch this. Shot, narrated and edited…
Arctic Deeply is dedicated to the north, and it officially joined the media landscape this week. We’ll be working with this site in the coming months, and here’s what it’s all about: The rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is creating economic, social and environmental challenges that call for global discussion and new policies. But…
Jennifer Kingsley writes on science at the Canadian Museum of Nature I’m a Field Correspondent with Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic on an Arctic mission, but before I head north I’m looking around home for connections to the higher latitudes. Enter Roger Bull. By the time I saw Lycodes paamiuti, an obscure fish dragged from the Arctic…