This 1599 map by Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz shows Spitsbergen — the main island in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago — mapped for the first time. Labelled as Het Nieuwe Land, meaning “the new land” ...

Map of the "Last Ice Area" (red outline) defined by the WWF, including the Queen Elizabeth Islands (red), the northern region of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (green), and the southern part of the ...

FILE - The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails through sea ice floating on the Victoria Strait along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, July 21, 2017. The U.S., Canada and ...

Scientists are racing to study Arctic ecosystems ... station on the coastal margin of the “Last Ice Area”— a 400,000-square-mile region north of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.