By consulting Inuit oral history and the evidence surrounding the doomed voyage of an English explorer, scientist may at last understand the Arctic's capricious warming cycles.
Even in the dead of winter, the Arctic wind can be as kind as it is cruel.
One moment, it's an icy fist trying to squeeze the final breath from your lungs. The next, it's a giving hand that sustains life.
The Arctic's wild mood swings rattled me with a March gale that hammered Ulukhaktok, a hamlet of around 400 people on the western shore of Victoria Island, high in Canada's western Arctic.
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