Here’s how to make the most of each distinct season in Norway's northernmost region — from snowmobiling across the Finnmark ...

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

A steel arch commemorating sled dog racing was installed over Fourth Avenue in downtown Anchorage. The arch is part of an ...

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Some dog breeds have long histories, but the Qimmeq, the Greenland sled dog, stands apart for its remarkable continuity.

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

Steffen Olsen, a scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute, was on a routine mission in northwest Greenland to retrieve oceanographic and weather monitoring tools placed by his colleagues on ...

ILULISSAT, GREENLAND — Just after midday, we gripped the worn rope handles of a dogsled as 11 dogs surged across the frozen tundra of Western Greenland, inside the Arctic Circle. The wind lashed our ...

A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead. Their results shed light on both the development of this breed and ...

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Greenland sled dogs can trace their origins back nearly 10,000 years. In a new study published July 10 in the journal Science, paleogeneticists mapped the path of these culturally important canines ...