This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the blue light of an early Arctic morning ... Is the measure of an animal’s wildness equal to the distance ...

But at National Geographic’s request ... A few hundred beavers won’t reengineer the Arctic. But the animals may be heading north in Canada and Siberia too, and they reproduce quickly.

For National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen, the Arctic is home. Nicklen was raised on Baffin Island, Nunavut, in Northern Canada. There he learned to navigate the ice, read weather ...

The US government is pushing forward with controversial plans to allow drilling in the Arctic National ... a symbol of our country's national heritage. "And if these animals can't be safe in ...