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University of Illinois geologist William Shilts spent nearly two decades studying glaciers on Bylot Island, an uninhabited island about 300 miles southwest of Thule, Greenland. He, his students ...
And while they were there, the bears were watching them. The Bear Witness Arctic Expedition has just returned from Bylot Island, an island just north of Baffin Island where the temperature dipped ...
Bylot Island offers stunning sights: deep, navy blue waters setting off the glistening white glaciers and icebergs that rise out of them, tinged with turquoise. Visitors may also catch a glimpse ...
and again on Bylot Island in the eastern Canadian Arctic this summer, that helped snowy owl pairs reproduce in large numbers. The population explosion sent the young birds up to 2,000 miles south ...
Rather, he said, climate forecasts suggest that, by 2100, the now-uninhabited Bylot Island where the fossilized forest was discovered will support temperatures similar to those prevalent when the ...
Four skiers are starting a month-long trip around Bylot Island this week to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary. The Bear Witness expedition will manage the 540-kilometre trip all on their own steam, ...
In 2009, Fortier and colleagues were studying a buried fossilized forest on Bylot Island, in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, when they stumbled across the sites of some recent landslides that had ...
Under an around-the-clock summer sun, a young Arctic fox set out in July 2019 from Bylot Island in Nunavut, Canada. He wandered over the tundra for 299 days, probably alone, trotting an ...
BYLOT ISLAND, NUNAVUT—Four stranded hunters have been located on an island in Baffin Bay, Nunavut, and should be back home by morning. A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in ...