Capt. Sir John Franklin’s ships froze in place as winter petrified the waters around them. The cold and violent sea snapped stiff and thunderous. Pressure ridges burst icy artifacts into the sky, pale...
Comic by Bill Rerick/ The Dakota Student
There were hundreds of researchers in the room. They had driven in vans or flown in planes from the ends of North America to the place where two rivers meet...
Comic by Bill Rerick/ The Dakota Student
I saw a polar bear this week.
It lay in a streak of gravel half-heartedly licking its paws, glancing up occasionally at the stream of human faces chattering...
Faces and clicking cameras chattered on the edges of his exhibit as always.
Knut the polar bear, Germany’s favorite captive animal and the world’s symbol of conservation, stood in his enclosure....
“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”
Nowhere else in animated television has an artistic vision of God spoken as poignantly as the one from “Futurama”....
Inuit Abraham (Abe) Ulrikab photographed before leaving for the Berlin Zoo. Photo courtesy of cbc.ca
The media exacerbated the myth that Inuit people were of a more primitive ancestry than whites, and...
Eskimo Abe and his family posing for a photo. Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org
Several thousand faces watched, some with smiles, some with shock, as Abe the Eskimo kneeled to bury his kin.
From the...
Part Four of The Bears That Zeus Made
Wet, steamy breath billows from the mouth of the dying polar bear. It lays partially on its side, heavy head resting on the jagged sea ice blinking at glints of...
Part 2 of The Bears That Zeus Made
I’m outside looking for the Great Bears, but I can’t find them.
The side of the house and whispering leaves above hide the sky from my sight, though the stars...
The ancient Greeks told of how the Great Bears came to be in the northern sky. The story has been passed down for generations, and as always, the relationship between Man and Nature is told from the mouth...
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