The Northwest Passage connects the Atlantic and the Pacific via the Arctic Ocean along the northernmost part of North America. It’s long been sought as a shorter alternative shipping route ...

The Arctic Ocean floor just got a little less mysterious. A team of international researchers has compiled the most detailed map of the Arctic seabed to date. It was published earlier this month ...

The Arctic covers around 5% of the planet's surface, but it is capturing a disproportionate amount of attention. With temperatures rising at twice the global rate, the region's summer sea ice is ...

The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) goes deeper into the climate impacts on Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, who make up at least 10% of the region’s ...

The European ice sheet spanned a distance of more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), from Ireland and Scotland via Scandinavia to the Eastern rim of the Kara Sea (Arctic Ocean). In North America ...

Ellesmere Island. Two weeks into their 1,100km attempt at the first unsupported north-to-south ski crossing of Ellesmere Island, Børge Ousland and Vincent Colliard are now well inland.

The Arctic was once defined by its lack of potential conflict — encapsulated in the saying "high north, low tension." Countries that struggled to cooperate closer to the equator have, for ...

The collapse in Alaska’s fisheries threatens a vital food supply and a cherished way of life — a stark warning of a global future massively disrupted by environmental pressures.

The latest cold snap gripping North America will result in temperatures plummeting across the U.S as powerful winds move in. ... Arctic Blast Map Reveals When 'Destructive Winds' Will Hit Each State.