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

The recent sighting of a gray whale near Nantucket has captivated the scientific community. Once thought extinct in the ...

He would find both on this journey, and live to write about it in “Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery.” The mystery of the subtitle is what happened ...

BOULDER, Colorado (CNN)-- Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, long held to be an early warning of a changing climate, has shattered the all-time low record this summer, scientists say. Additionally ...

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 ...

The mystery of what happened to Franklin and all of his men has never been entirely solved, though the wrecks of both his ...

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

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole ... in Victorian paintings—of man commanding the landscape? Huntford: If you look at Victorian paintings, you ...

He said there is already "strong interest" in the planned 2017 cruise. Sea Ice, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Arctic Canada. Credit: UIG via Getty Images The Crystal Cruises ship signals the arrival ...

Fifteen thousand years ago, during the last Ice Age, a glacial dam collapsed ... again to recreate the lake. Today the landscape of the Pacific Northwest still bears the signs of these cataclysms ...