It started with trust. It had to. But it was a trust that was gained slowly, over 15 years of cooperation between three university researchers and the various Inuit communities that dot the Canadian ...

Last week, a new atlas was released documenting the network of pan-Inuit trails crisscrossing the Arctic from Alaska to Greenland. Historically, these trails – crossed by sledge, dogsled, foot, and ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. A group of researchers has ...

One of the platinum-engraved sapphire disks illustrating Earth’s biodiversity that will be housed in the Earth Chamber, designed by Mark Baskinger with Matt Zywica, Maggie Banks, Christie Chong, ...