Category: features
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Arctic dogsledding culture is slipping through the cracks
Warming temperatures and shrinking sea ice threaten a way of life.
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High stakes in the High North
BIOGRAPHIC — A remote island that harbored the word’s last mammoths is becoming a holdout for Arctic wildlife once again.
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Using technology to find hidden graves
DISCOVER MAGAZINE — Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff wants to make the search for the missing safer and more successful.
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Cities beat the heat
NATURE — Rising temperatures are threatening urban areas, but efforts to cool them may not work as planned.
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Being Prepared
Nature When a key member of a team is lost, the work does not have to come to an end. When Michael Pisaric was two years into his PhD, he travelled to Watson Lake in Canada with his supervisor, Julian Szeicz, and graduate student Tammy Karst-Riddoch, to collect sediment from several lakes in Yukon and…