How Musk Ox Make It Through Arctic Nights and Never-Ending Days
In the distant reaches of northeastern Greenland, musk oxen amble across the tundra, grazing as they go. As Arctic creatures, they need to gather enough...
Category: American News
Biden’s Plans for Latin America: End ‘Bully Dictating Policy’
RIO DE JANEIRO — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden admits it was a contrarian view in the Obama White House. During its final years,...
Witnessing Peru’s Enduring, if Altered, Snow Star Festival
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens —...
Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Passes Important Threshold
A treaty aimed at destroying all nuclear weapons and forever prohibiting their use has hit an important benchmark, with Honduras becoming the 50th country to...
Indigenous Colombians, Facing New Wave of Brutality, Demand Government Action
Protesters descended by the thousands on Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, this week, horrified by a brutal wave of violence sweeping the country, one so intense that...
A Francophile’s Unexpected Love Affair With Canadian Wine
It began with grape-guzzling bears. I was on vacation in British Columbia’s pristinely beautiful Okanagan winemaking region this summer when I asked Severine Pinte, a...
Hurricane Epsilon Weakens as It Nears Bermuda
Hurricane Epsilon continued to churn toward Bermuda on Thursday afternoon after making what the National Hurricane Center called a “wobbly” turn toward the northwest. The...
Asbestos, a Quebec Mining Town, Will Change Name to Val-des-Sources
Asbestos, a Quebec town that is home to what was once the largest asbestos mine in the world, no longer wants to be named after...
Mi’kmaq Lobstermen in Nova Scotia Face Attacks by Fishermen
Jason Marr, an Indigenous lobsterman in Nova Scotia, was unloading his live catch at a storage facility last week when, he said, an angry mob...
2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru
The image, stretching for 40 yards on a hillside in Peru, shows a creature with pointy ears, orb-like eyes and a long striped tail. It...