Norse populations in Greenland vanished in the 15th century, and the reason has been a mystery for centuries. However, a recent study of medieval artifacts from across Europe suggests it may have been ...

A group of walruses on a flat rock at Qayassiq. June 2022. (KDLG photo) Thirty miles off the coast of the village of Togiak in Southwest Alaska sits Round Island, known in Yugtun as Qayassiq.

KIPNUK, Alaska -- If Sgt. Burt Paul fails to hook in salmon or track big game, his family could struggle through the harsh Alaskan winter. Isolated in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region, where soggy ...

Scientists have struggled to understand why, after hundreds of years, Vikings suddenly abandoned their Greenland colony. New research suggests their economic over-reliance on walrus tusks—a valuable ...

Calling the disappearance of medieval Norse colonies from Greenland ” a classic pattern of resource depletion,” researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo, and Trondheim found that, for ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. A group of photographers joined a walrus hunt near Igloolik recently to help put together learning ...

Anna Oxereok grew up eating walrus in the western Alaska village of Wales. Today it's such a rare treat she can't bring herself to part with the plastic gallon bag of meat in her freezer. "I have to ...

Four men sentenced this week for illegally taking walruses in 2015 must hunt for Point Hope elders and clean whaling equipment as part of their plea agreement. The four Point Hope residents — Adam ...

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