As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape.

Expedition line HX has launched a new 26-day "Northwest Passage: Through the Arctic Labyrinth" itinerary from Greenland to Alaska. Here's what to expect.

The US and Canada want more icebreakers to counter Russia and China in the Arctic, as the polar region — and competition for ...

In Seattle last week, having traveled southward 2,000 miles by plane, another 1,000 miles by ship, was Boris Magids, a stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is “farthest north” in the chain-store ...

More study of changing conditions in the Arctic, a region where Russia and other nations are increasing their military ...

Erling Kagge, who himself was one of the first to reach the pole unassisted, details the personal motivations and public ...

The loss of Arctic sea ice has long been a graphic measure of human-caused climate change, with wrenching images of suffering polar bears illustrating a worsening planetary crisis. Now, new research ...

While most of the United States spent the summer in the grips of intense heat waves, University of Delaware doctoral student Aruggoda Kapuge Isuri Umejya Kapuge was about as far away from the heat as ...

BLACK SUNLIGHT—Earl Rossman —Oxford University Press ($1.75). With so many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the icy wastes of the Polar Sea, this journalistic account of ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...