A new multiyear offshore program, to be unveiled soon, will include a reconfigured Arctic area where future lease sales will ...

What and where is it? The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land, unlike the Antarctic at the other end of the world, which is a continent surrounded by water. Its vast territory of 21 million ...

I’m not altogether a fan of what the writer Sara Wheeler has called the Big Willie school of expeditions. ‘To me,’ I once ...

In search of postpandemic adventure, the author sailed the icy arctic waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Imagine a world where the polar bear, stranded on a shrinking ice floe, could stand before a court and demand justice for its ...

An Antarctica expedition is a dream come true for Tracey Davies, but first she has to cross the Drake Passage, the roughest ...

Recounting the tales of the many successful and failed voyages to the far north, Tom says lessons can be learned from the ...

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

Norway's Svalbard Airport, built on an unstable permafrost foundation, is the world's northernmost airport with scheduled ...