Entrance to a sod house - traditional semi-subterranean homes built into the permafrost using available sod, wood, and sometimes whalebone or animal skins to create well-insulated, durable shelters against the harsh Arctic climate.
Arctic Heritage Site - Herschel Island suffering from a significant thawing event.
Yes, this fisherman is wearing an Around the Americas sticker on his hat!
Excavators moving steel barrels on the beach in an attempt to mitigate shoreline erosion.
A drone photograph of One Ocean anchored in the bay at Herschel Island. Visible on the hillside are both small and large landslides caused by permafrost thaw.
Flying into Utqiaġvik, the landscape below was scattered with thermokarst lakes, evidence of a thawing Arctic.
The breakwater in Tuktoyaktuk, built to protect the shoreline from wave erosion.