Then, with a frenzied whine, the helicopter’s rotor blades break the spell, and we lift off, veering southwest toward our campsite on the northernmost tip of Baffin Island, Canada, about 700 ...

Wishing for wildlife sightings in the Canadian Arctic is like writing a letter ... an Inuit community on Baffin Island’s coast. Fewer than 2,000 locals call “Mittimatalik” home, so an ...

I’m a polar scientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team ...