Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

countries can claim rights to seabed resources in the Arctic Ocean, depending on their coastline and the sea-floor geology. Dark shading on this map represents each nation's existing exclusive ...

The mysteries of the Arctic have captivated explorers and mapmakers for centuries, as Europeans searched for northern sea routes to Asia. The blending of myth and fact in the maps below represent our ...

The University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center recently set out to create a complete topographical map of the entire arctic, including Alaska. The project is part of a national initiative ...

A fearsome new Arctic blast is set to cover swathes of the US today - as forecasters warn ‘record-breaking’ cold weather is set to follow. Residents in the Northern Plains will be among the ...

This was not the first such disappearing act in the high Arctic, or the first need to erase land from the map. Nearly a century ago, an innovative airborne expedition redrew the maps of large ...

As the Arctic warms, its mighty rivers are changing in ways that could have vast consequences – not only for the Arctic region but for the world. Rivers represent the land branch of the earth ...

The map showed that the states most likely to experience ... NWS Brownsville wrote on X, formerly Twitter, yesterday: "Another Arctic Blast is expected to impact a large part of the country ...

This was not the first such disappearing act in the high Arctic, or the first need to erase land from the map. Nearly a century ago, an innovative airborne expedition redrew the maps of large ...

Thawing ice in the Arctic may open up new routes for internet cables that lie at the bottom of the ocean and carry most international data traffic. And more routes matter when underwater ...

For bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the world at large, causing ice to shrink by an area the size of ...