Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean as a shortcut between the North Atlantic ... the Northern Sea Route, which runs along ...

Over the next century, the Arctic will change and look much different than it does today. Just how different is still unknown ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently vanished after "completely melting" away.

The shrinking sea ... route links the North Atlantic Ocean with the North Pacific Ocean. Since the 19th Century, there has been clamour to find a navigable route through frozen Arctic waters ...

The route, made viable by the melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change, runs from Murmansk near Russia’s border with Norway to the Bering Strait near Alaska. “As for the Northern Sea ...