Up until a few months before the pandemic, Nina Karnikowski had been travelling the world, writing stories about every hidden corner of the globe — from photography trips in Mongolia to cruises in Antarctica and rail journeys through India. Throughout her career, Nina has accumulated her fair share of passport stamps, travelling to more than 60 countries on every continent. But it was her last assignment to the Canadian Arctic in 2019 that brought years of global crisscrossing to a halt.
In Churchill, dubbed the “polar bear capital of the world”, Nina saw first-hand the impact of human behaviour on polar bears and the planet more broadly. The melting of
