Two tourists from Turkey were in Arctic Bay to document the effects of climate change and to photograph polar bears in the Nunavut territory recently, but wound up in hot water with the locals when ...

This spring, when I set out to report on the vanishing world of Inuit polar-bear hunters for The New Yorker’s Far-Flung Correspondents special centenary issue, I initially planned to head up to ...

That ended in 2005 when quotas were put in place to slow the fall in polar bear numbers. This year's quota of 35 had been hit by the end of April, which was why Hammeken was hunting seals, on which ...

Two wildlife photographers from Turkey have issued an apology for posting a video to social media in which they criticized Native hunters in Nunavut for hunting polar bears. The men, Süha Derbent and ...

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.

TORONTO — A DNA test has confirmed what zoologists, hunters and aboriginal trackers in the far northern reaches of Canada have dreamed of for years: the first documented case of a grizzly-polar bear ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Proposals to ban trade in polar bear furs will do little to ensure the animals' long-term future, Canada's Arctic Inuit and two major conservationist groups both say. The United ...