"The Arctic ... ice sheet. Mayer flies around in his map program, giddy, spinning the image of the scours, hovering above them, skimming the seabed at top virtual speed, awestruck by the world ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

Map layers to date include 368 identified areas of heightened ecological significance, and Arctic ship traffic, ice coverage, and bathymetry. ArkGIS can be accessed at www.arkgis.org. WWF is one of ...

The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean isn’t the unbroken white mantle depicted in maps. It’s a jigsaw puzzle ... through a hole in the ice, into a world just being awakened by the spring ...

Maps are being updated as global warming melts ice across the Arctic. Gumrf.ru Marina Migunova (file pic) is now a scientist in the Russian navy The islands found by Ms Migunova range in size from ...

The effects of climate change can be felt growing slowly but subtly in most parts of the world ... a wide range of subjects in his work for Getty Images, understood the scale of Arctic ice when ...