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 ...

A new seafloor map reveals an area in the Arctic Ocean twice the size of France and six times the size of England. This addition contributes to the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map the ...

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 ...

Norway’s royals visit Svalbard as global powers eye the Arctic’s resources, shipping lanes, and unique international treaty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With DTU Space as co-organiser, ESA has challenged researchers and students in Europe with a contest to create the best maps of drifting sea ice in the Arctic using satellite data and AI. The winners ...