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Did mammoth hunters warm the world?

Story | North Slope | Environment

Ned Rozell | Jul 20 2010

Could ancient mammoth hunters have warmed the planet? A trio of scientists presents the idea in a new study.

Three books on Barrow

Story | North Slope | Education

Daniel Cornwall | Jul 20 2010

"Three books on ..." is a weekly column that seeks to show people that wherever they live, there are community-relevant books that they can get from Alaska libraries.

Three books on Atqasuk

Story | North Slope | Education

Daniel Cornwall | Jul 14 2010

"Three books on ..." is a weekly column that seeks to show people that wherever they live, there are community-relevant books that they can get from Alaska libraries.

Polar bears of the past survived warmth

Story | North Slope | Wildlife

Ned Rozell | Jul 5 2010

An ancient jawbone has led scientists to believe that polar bears survived a period thousands of years ago that was warmer than today.

Learning from whales and whalers on top of the world

Story | North Slope | Environment

Ned Rozell | Jun 18 2010

Bowhead whales are so important for northern indigenous cultures that people evolved around using bowhead bodies for food, bowhead oil to light their lamps and bowhead bones to build shelters from the cold and constant wind.

The sun that never sets

Video | North Slope | Outdoors

Taro Nakai | Jun 17 2010

Time-lapse movie of the Arctic midnight sun at Alaska's North Slope.

Elders' knowledge

Story | North Slope | Education

Maya Salganek | Jun 1 2010

Iñupiat Elders share their knowledge about the environment, whaling, and sea ice. As lifelong residents of Barrow, Alaska, these Elders have insight and perspective to cultural change and environmental shift unique to the world.

Harvesting water in the Arctic

Video | North Slope | History

Alaska Film Archives | May 21 2010

Learn how people up north harvested water for drinking and other domestic purposes. This footage was captured near Barrow.

Learning to cut up maktak by observation

Video | North Slope | Food

Patricia Partnow | May 14 2010

Workshop participants at the North Slope Borough School District learn a traditional skill- cutting up maktak (whale blubber)- in the traditional Inupiaq way, by observation and trial.

The killing field of northern Alaska

Story | North Slope | Environment

Ned Rozell | May 6 2010

On a fine spring day about 70 million years ago, a few dozen duck-billed dinosaurs waded a channel of a great northern river. As they strode on two legs into the cloudy water, the man-size hadrosaurs had no idea how the sunshine was affecting the snowpack in the high mountains to the south.

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