IT Blog

In the Arctic, and across the Northern Hemisphere, it’s wintertime, and for many people that means cold and ice are a daily reality — a way of life, even. But the old certainties about are giving way to new anomalies: Climate change has brought warming temperatures to the Arctic faster than to the rest of the world, and inhabitants of those climes are having to adapt in real time.

Often, they’re turning to technology to help keep alive their cultural practices and methods of subsistence living, from whaling to reindeer herding. For instance, some are creating maps by using a handheld GPS…