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Innaarsuit is located on a small island in western Greenland, and the local economy revolves primarily around fishing.
Everyone seems to agree that ISIS is digging up and selling archaeological artifacts to make money. But no one seems to agree on how much money it’s actually making from its illegal antiquities trade: ...
Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one ...
The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...
When the UN family convened for its bi-annual meeting under the leadership of the Secretary-General earlier this year it was appropriate that the venue was Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.  Denmark ...
Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland ’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a ...
Using the DNA from both modern dogs and ones found at archaeological sites, researchers have been able to explore the longest ...
Scientists learn to better understand the movement of Greenland, as it was slowly pushed over the hotspot that is now located ...
Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North Atlantic. While global temperatures continue to rise, one area in the ...
Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...
A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.
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