Baffin Island, Sept. 5, 2013. A polar bear collapses on the ground after being shot by Inuit hunters. The Inuit in Canada have traditionally hunted polar bears for subsistence and income to provide ...

On a remote fjord in northwest Greenland, traditional Inuit hunting techniques are being used to affix tiny, high-tech satellite transmitters onto narwhals — a kind of Arctic whale famous for its long ...

A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization called Inuit Sila is based in Copenhagen and has been defending ...

Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed seal near its breathing hole on the Greenland ice. In his white camouflage, he slowly crept towards it then lay down in the snow and waited. When the ...

Canadian musician Tanya Tagaq has spoken up in support of the Inuit seal hunt for many years. In 2014 she received death threats when she posted a “sealfie,” a picture of her infant daughter next to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Murat Uslu, left, and Süha Derbent are photographers from Turkey who visited Arctic Bay last week. (Carl-Eric Cardinal/CBC - image ...

This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — On a bitter late September day ...

A prominent former activist has accused Greenpeace of betraying its original ideas for supporting trophy hunting of polar bears. Paul Watson, now founder and director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation ...

In a normal year, November is the month when frozen water reconnects friends and families on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. In the Inuktitut language, the word for November—Tusaqtuut—means ...