Megan Stewart is a freelance travel, recreation and sports writer based in Vancouver, Canada. She has covered numerous Olympic Games and has reported for the Associated Press, Globe and Mail, CBC, Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Magazine. https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/contributor/megan-stewart/rss en Research Thu, 14 Sep 2017 05:54:59 +0000 Megan Stewart https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/09/14/uncovering-clues-about-the-arctics-past-climate-in-old-whaling-logs https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/09/14/uncovering-clues-about-the-arctics-past-climate-in-old-whaling-logs Arctic cruise passengers are being enlisted to help analyze logbooks kept by whalers nearly two centuries ago in an effort to better understand how sea ice in the region has shrunk. Northern People & Health Wed, 30 Aug 2017 03:00:21 +0000 Megan Stewart https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2017/08/30/talking-art-and-activism-with-an-accomplished-inuit-carver https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2017/08/30/talking-art-and-activism-with-an-accomplished-inuit-carver Meet Billy Gauthier, an acclaimed artist from northern Canada who participated in a hunger strike last summer to to protest the environmental impacts of a new hydroelectric dam in Labrador.