Smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada has spread over 5,000 miles across the Atlantic over the last week — reaching as far as parts of Russia. Western Greenland and the Arctic Archipelago ...

The mysteries of the Arctic have captivated explorers and mapmakers for centuries, as Europeans searched for northern sea routes to Asia.The blending of myth and fact in the maps below represent our ...

The official Canadian map of the Arctic region is using what’s known as the sector theory to delineate its Arctic maritime boundaries.

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 ...

A pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote government radar site in the Canadian Arctic, the facility's operator said, marking at least the second fatal polar bear attack since ...

The ‘Last Ice Area’ is already disappearing Scientists race to study Arctic lakes before they are lost forever.

How does someone who grew up at the equator survive in a land of ice and snow, where pitch darkness lasts 22 hours in winter?