At 330 miles above the Arctic Circle, life has never been easy for those brave enough to call Barrow home. The population currently hovers around 5,000 and about half of the residents are native Inupiat Eskimo, indigenous people who have…

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Alaska vs. the lower 48

Glaciers surround the Prince William Sound on the south coast of Alaska. Photo by Mike Fritz, PBS NewsHour. This week, PBS NewsHour, in collaboration with the Seattle Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is rolling out a…

"It's not the end of the world," David Lefner told us, "but you can see it from here." That was our greeting as we stepped off our flight in Bethel, Alaska. It was our last stop before boarding the…