The Arctic is particularly vulnerable to climate change, but efforts to tackle it risk alienating the people who live there.
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Two scholars report on how conservation policies designed to protect reindeer are harming the nomadic Tsaatan people who rely on them.
The winter of 2018-19 claimed 200 reindeer in Svalbard, Norway, according to a recent census.
Several of Santa's modern features, such as his generosity, miracle-working, and focus on morality (being 'naughty or nice'), were part of his image from the very beginning.
The effects of climate change are being strongly felt in the North, but how caribou respond depends on what changes occur.
From luxuries like champagne to the very livelihoods of fishing communities in the developing world – the climate-driven shifts in species will affect us all.
Most children are not likely to believe that fish live on the moon. What makes children accept some stories and be skeptical about others?
A team of researchers went to the High Arctic to retrace the steps of a 1960s expedition. They came away with far more than they bargained for.
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PhD Candidate in Arctic Ecology, Durham University
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Professor, ARC Future Fellow & Editor in Chief (Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries), University of Tasmania
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