In Utqiaġvik, a team has used sterilized trowels to scrape a thin layer of snow from fresh polar bear footprints. Methods like that help scientists learn more about the animals without bothering them or taking extreme risks.
"Siku" means sea ice in the Siberian Yup ik language. But about a hundred other Yup ik words describe different types of sea ice, including icebergs, floating pressure ice ridges, solid ice
Indigenous experts, hunters, scientists and policymakers shared their perspectives on the impacts of diminishing sea ice at the recent Arctic Encounter Symposium.