Hence, it constitutes a major obstacle to advancing Arctic shipping operations, for smaller vessels or those with no specialized ice-breaking capabilities. Even as sections of the Northwest Passage ...

As the planet warms up and arctic sea ice recedes further and further each year, a potentially crucial trade route will open up: the Northwest Passage. Which happens to go right through an area that ...

In January, sea ice severed a fiber-optic cable running along the floor of the Beaufort Sea several miles off the North Slope ...

Thin ice can be seen between Kotzebue and Deering on Dec 17. (Desiree Hagen, KOTZ) Last October, flooding from a storm that hit the Northwest Arctic ... say that Arctic sea ice is forming later ...

If the U.S. claimed the Northwest Passage and the Panama Canal, it would control both major sea routes accessing North America and ... Climate change is opening passageways—disconnecting land from ice ...

Slumping is threatening the lakes where people catch fish. Then there’s the melting sea ice, opening the Northwest Passage and the communities along it to more shipping, and putting them at the ...

In front of us, on the ice surrounding our bow ... We were in the middle of the Northwest Passage in Arctic Canada, a place so far north, there’s nothing above it on Google Maps. With no accommodation ...