Available Stories

Trucking Cold on Siberia's Winter Roads
Dogs of the
Snow and Ice
The Emperors of
Snow Hill
Arctic Meltdown
A Reindeer in the Family
Jokkmokk Winter Market
Horses under the Whispering Stars
NORILSK. Pollution Capital of the Arctic
Moose Medicine
500 Years of Russian Vodka

Shishmaref

It’s minus 14? C (+7?F) in Shishmaref and unseasonably warm for a January day. You might think that for an Arctic community where the surrounding sea remains frozen for seven months a year, a little global warming might be welcome, but for the 600 Inupiaq Eskimos who live in this small and isolated Alaskan village, climate change is threatening their community.