In recent years, forest fires have covered many parts of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The fires often threaten populated areas and Indigenous communities as well. In 2020–2021, the fires caused enormous economic and environmental damage and the exact amount is yet to be fully calculated. Concerns about the sheer scale of carbon emissions into the atmosphere were widely discussed by world media. Social scientists of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) raised the following questions: how do Indigenous communities live in a condition of constant threat from annual forest fires? What environmental, social, and economic challenges do they face, what do they fear, and what are their expectations? We reviewed Indigenous traditional knowledge related to fire management and firefighting techniques and analyzed Indigenous peoples’ perceptions of changes in the ecological balance of water resources and permafrost. The authors also discuss the causes of forest fires, connections with industrial and transport development, and social consequences. The article is based on 2010–2021 field studies.

The article examines climate-related transformations in Arctic communities living in areas of continuous permafrost. The relevance of the study is determined by the accelerated warming of the Arctic and the need to understand not only environmental and economic, but also linguocultural consequences of climate change. The aim of the research is to analyze five key problems: changes in the water regime of rivers and lakes, permafrost degradation, weather instability, shifts in species ranges, and changes in seasonal timing, as well as local adaptation strategies in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Alaska. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary approach combining linguoecology, the anthropology of cold, and linguistic landscape analysis. The empirical material includes the authors’ field data collected in 2009–2025: interviews, sociological surveys, and municipal archive records, processed through content analysis and thematic coding. The results show that local communities use both traditional adaptation practices, including hay drying on wooden poles and draining water from thermokarst lakes, and technological solutions, such as adjustable steel piles in Alaska and village relocation to nonfloodable areas in Yakutia. It is shown that climate instability causes compression of the linguocultural landscape: the loss of precise nature-related vocabulary, the deactualization of calendar signs and paremias, and the weakening of links between traditional economic terminology and real seasonal phenomena. The conclusion emphasizes the need to include linguocultural monitoring in Arctic sustainable development strategies and to document vanishing traditional ecological knowledge.

The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved through time and been reinterpreted as technologies and ways of knowing have evolved. They focus on the contexts in which these recordings were created, archived, and later listened to. These acts sometimes occurred simultaneously, but were often separated by decades. By examining these layers together, the authors show how Indigenous voices were positioned in pre‐modern times by scholars and archivists, while the phonograph—then a cutting‐edge technology—contributed over time to the “othering” of the recorded material. Building on these overlapping perspectives, the authors argue that each stage of engagement with the recordings introduced new meanings. These evolving interpretations have reshaped not only the history of anthropological thought but also how Indigenous communities and their histories are understood.