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Tag: Arctic Circle

  • Now Through September 27 – Knowing Nature: Stories of the Boreal Forest

    Home to 3.7 million people, 85 species of animals, 32,000 species of insects and 2 billion migratory birds, the boreal forest spans nearly the entire Northern Hemisphere, just below the Arctic Circle, and makes up one of the world’s last remaining stretches of true wilderness.

    Discover the biodiversity and global importance of our northernmost forests through first-person stories, commissioned objects, interactive experiences and exquisite photography and videography.

    The boreal forest is critical to the health of our entire planet. It helps regulate Earth’s climate, is the world’s largest land biome, is a critical water reservoir and holds two to three times as much carbon as tropical forests.

    This timely Peabody Essex Museum bilingual exhibition (in English and Spanish) weaves together themes of climate change, Indigenous perspectives and the relationship between people and nature while taking audiences on a learning journey that starts with curiosity, builds empathy and leads to action. This family-friendly exhibition is located in The Dotty Brown Art & Nature Center and is part of PEM’s Climate + Environment Initiative.

    Follow along on social media using #PEMKnowingNature For hours and more information visit https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/knowing-nature-stories-of-the-boreal-forest

  • Tuesday, February 11, 5:15 pm – 7:30 pm – Northern Exposure: American Military Engineering in the Arctic Circle

    The Massachusetts Historical Society is sponsoring a lecture at its headquarters at 1154 Boylston Street in Boston on February 11, beginning at 5:15 pm, by Gretchen Heefner of Northeastern University, with comment by Christopher Capozzola of MIT,, as part of its Environmental History Seminars, entitled Northern Exposure: American Military Engineering in the Arctic Circle. From the late 1940s through the 1960s, U.S. military engineers constructed and maintained a vast, though largely unknown, infrastructure of military facilities throughout the Far North. This talk examines how these engineers explored the Arctic regions, what sorts of information they accumulated about it, and ultimately what happened to that information once it was released from military constraints. Free, but registration requested at www.masshist.org.

  • Saturday, March 12, 2:00 pm – The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle

    Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps, and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers—author Sara Wheeler will discuss her adventures in the beautiful and brutal Arctic from her book The Magnetic North, featured in the Boston Globe and the February 6 edition of the New York Times Book Review. The lecture and book signing will take place at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, beginning at 2 pm on Saturday, March 12. Free with museum admission.  For more information log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu.