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 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 ...

Melting Arctic sea ice is forcing cruise ships to alter traditional routes, offering travelers unexpected paths while ...

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 ...

The Pentagon's move to shift its oversight of Greenland under U.S. Northern Command aligns with President Trump’s pledge to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...