Henry Howgate was not himself an arctic explorer, but as an influential bureaucrat, he profoundly affected American arctic expeditions in the late 19th century. He was partly responsible for one of ...

Canada is preparing for one of the most expensive military purchases in its history — a brand-new fleet of submarines. The ...

In September 2023, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland canceled the remaining fossil fuel leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, auctioned off during the waning days of the Trump ...

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen ...

The film, due to be shown as part of ITV’s Christmas schedule, will include a discussion with Charles about the impact of ...

China's scientific expedition team for the Arctic manned deep-diving mission returned home on Monday, with China's ...

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Del Toro’s film presents the Arctic of the 1800s as a barren wasteland, which overlooks the existence of Indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia.

Swedish drilling vessel, Vidar Viking, led the Arctic Coring Expedition, when scientists set out to retrieve subseafloor sediment records to support their investigations into climate change. Click ...

Nations—and their militaries—are scrambling to control long-frozen resources and new shipping routes. Canadian soldiers climb on the wreckage of a plane, roughly a thousand miles south of the North ...

For the first time in recorded history researchers have not observed sea ice formation along the Siberian Coast of the Arctic Sea this late into the year. The region, according to researchers, usually ...

Image: A Greenland ice core reveals pollution in the Arctic region was higher 100 years ago. New research, reported this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...