In the process of tweaking its brand for the first time in 25 years, Alaska Airlines learned more about what the Eskimo on the tail of its aircraft represents to Alaska Natives. Since 1972, when the ...

Scattered over 1,254,000 sq. mi. of Arctic waste, Canada’s 11,000 Eskimos for centuries have spoken a complicated language. The Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, ...

As the word 'Eskimo' gets ready to depart from writing and polite conversation, I've regretted having to say goodbye, so I called an old friend who hasn't liked the word for a long time. While I was ...

How does an Eskimo keep himself warm? Arctic Expert Vilhjalmur Stefansson, in Natural History, explains: he fits his jacket tight around his neck and wears nothing but pants underneath. Dressed in ...

Astrophotographer Ted Wolfe looks up at the night sky through telescopes from his home in Southwest Florida and photographs it through specialized cameras. His pictures of colliding galaxies, dying ...

Shell Oil has invested $4.5 billion in a bid to explore undersea areas off Alaska’s North Slope, where corporate executives hope to find huge new deposits of oil and natural gas. These offshore waters ...