This spring, when I set out to report on the vanishing world of Inuit polar-bear hunters for The New Yorker’s Far-Flung Correspondents special centenary issue, I initially planned to head up to ...

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

Scientists warned on Thursday that the long-term health of Inuit hunters in eastern Greenland was under threat, due to so-called "forever chemicals" in the atmosphere and their diet of polar bear and ...