Traversing the ice-bound sea lane across the Arctic Ocean connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had long been a dream of ...

But even he didn't anticipate how little ice he and his crew members would encounter during much of their voyage. "We went through the Northwest Passage in 14 days and didn’t see one drop of ice ...

After the eruption, the global temperature dropped by up to 3°C, and a 'volcanic winter' was witnessed in many places.

Until 2007, the Northwest Passage had never been free of sea ice in all of human history. Search and rescue agencies in the U.S., Canada and Greenland will face challenges from this ship and the ...

which lies the eastern entrance of the fabled Northwest Passage. They travel on the breaking ice floe, dive with belugas and narwhals in the open Arctic Ocean, and explore the underside of the sea ...

He told of how for three weeks he and his little band had battled with the ice and storms ... preparation for my great adventure of the Northwest Passage. I besieged every possible source of ...

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) announced today that the CJF-Edward Burtynsky Award for Climate Photojournalism goes ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of ... Franklin's ships had become irretrievably beset in pack ice in 1846. Sealed inside a small tin ...

Escalating tensions in the Arctic over untapped resources and territorial claims raise concerns of potential conflict.

In 1845 explorers sought the Northwest Passage—then vanished In 1845 explorers ... lives of wolves living at the top of the world As ice melts, the Inuit strive to keep their culture alive ...