Igunaq is a delicacy made from fermenting walrus for months underground. But thawing permafrost and unstable ground are bringing the practice into question leading to changes in the tradition, and in ...

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.

This article is from Hakai Magazine, a new online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The air is calm this Arctic morning as ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – For generations, people in Alaska’s far-north villages have relied on hand-built ice cellars dug deep into the permafrost to age their whale and walrus meat to perfection and keep ...

For generations, Inuit families in Igloolik have made Igunaq, or fermented walrus. They use the permafrost to store the meat ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (Reuters) - About 10,000 pounds (4.5 tonnes) of frozen halibut is being sent as food aid to four rural tribal Alaskan communities beset by a lean walrus hunting season caused by climate ...

People living in the tundra ferment the plants, then eat them frozen, or use as a seasoning or as an independent dish, while traditional food of the Udege people is made of natural products without ...

SAVOONGA — No one can quite believe this and yet they saw it coming. Around St. Lawrence Island in the middle of the Bering Sea, a place closer to Russia than the U.S. mainland, the sea ice arrived ...

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"Where’s Freya?" That’s the question of the summer in Norway, where a young female walrus has shot to stardom by traveling the country's coastline, feeding in local harbors and crushing small boats ...