For communities in the High Arctic, this time of year is especially important. After months of darkness, the long night is ending.

"We've all heard stories of someone falling through the ice of a frozen lake, going without oxygen for 15 to 20 minutes, and then when they're revived, miraculously there's no brain damage," Medivance ...

The sun never sets in Greenland — not over the summer, at least. They call it the “midnight sun”: a natural phenomenon of 24-hour sunlight caused by the tilting of the Earth. At its lowest point, the ...

The Arctic sun wasn’t just bright, it was dangerous. Over 2,000 years ago, the Inuit and Yupik peoples of Alaska and northern Canada faced a deadly challenge: snow blindness from the sun’s glare. To ...