Anchorage is the heartland of Alaska's history and heritage—and it's also "the epicenter of warmth for the entire globe,” Brian Brettschneider, a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher who works for the International Arctic Research Center, tells me.
For Foreign Policy magazine, I reported and photographed from the starting line of the Iditarod dog sled race to uncover how Arctic mushers are among the first witnesses to the most extreme environmental transformations that eventually stretch across the globe.
Follow my photo journey on Instagram here.
