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The village of Innaarsuit is located on an island in northwestern Greenland. Officials with Avannaata, a municipal district of Greenland, warned visitors and residents to take extra care and if they ...
Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...
Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.
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 ...
A small settlement in Greenland is holding its collective breath as an iceberg of titanic proportions drifts dangerously ...
Everyone seems to agree that ISIS is digging up and selling archaeological artifacts to make money. But no one seems to agree on how much money it’s actually making from its illegal antiquities trade: ...
The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...
Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland ’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a ...
Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North Atlantic. While global temperatures continue to rise, one area in the ...
Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...
A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.
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