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Researchers clad in survival suits hitch a ride to a snow-crusted sheet of sea ice strung with blue melt ponds. Measuring light, salinity, nutrients, and biomass in the ice and meltwater will give them a baseline from which to assess change.

A diver braves the frigid -1.5 celsius cold, blue gloom as he scans the base of a multiyear ice floe some eight feet thick-laced with channels housing myriad life-forms. A safety line manned from above helps him stay oriented in strong currents…

Story Summary, The Arctic is melting at an alarming rate. Some scientists say that the Arctic could be void of ice by the year 2050. This could mean the end of seals, polar bears and other wildlife that depend on this cold platform to survive.…

Deep North, The Stikine River-Shake's Glacier-Shake's Glacier pours into the Stikine River along its final journey through Alaska. The river is fed by over a hundred glaciers along it's southern route before emptying into the sea near Wrangell,…

Deep North, The Stikine River-Homesteading-Nancy Ball cans salmon at her homestead, Glenora Ranch, on the banks of the Stikine River. Nancy is one of several families that eke out a life along the river in the Telegraph Creek area. She lives alone on…

Deep North, The Stikine River-Smoked Salmon Light streams through the smoke curing salmon in Henry Quock's smokehouse. Henry is a Tahltan Indian, the major tribe that settled along the upper Stikine River.

Deep North, The Stikine River-Eve's Cone-On the slopes of the volcano Mount Edziza, Eve's Cone marks the landscape that towers above the middle passage of the Stikine River.

Deep North, The Stikine River-Caribou Hunt-Near the headwaters of the Stikine River, hunting guide, Kate Auerbach, carries the rack and cape of a sport hunter's caribou to a nearby boat for transport back to Laslui Lodge in the Spatsizi Plateau…

Deep North, The Stikine River-Steep Decisions-A mountain goat contemplates his next move along the sheer walls of the Grand Canyon of the Stikine River. The Grand Canyon extends for 60 miles along the river's 400 mile route. The goats which live only…

Deep North, The Stikine River-Grand Canyon-The Grand Canyon of the Stikine guards 60 miles of upper middle river. The continuous rapids that cut through the thousand-foot walls has kept the number of kayakers who have successfully run its length to…