The Nunavik Regional Board of Health is warning against eating certain walrus meat after people have reported botulism poisoning. The patients are located in Inukjuak and reported eating igunaq at ...

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.

Thanksgiving menus traditionally celebrate the bounty of late fall. In rural Alaska, that means walrus, moose, fermented fish heads and Eskimo ice... For Native Alaskans, Holiday Menu Looks To The ...

Hunters in Igloolik, Nunavut, used to know exactly where to dig. Just beneath the gravel surface, into the cold, solid layer of permafrost ideal for preparing one of the most cherished Inuit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...