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All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.
Map showing main regions of the Arctic. Credit ... warm event” over the Greenland Sea and Svalbard region as the reason for the drop. Dr Rick Thoman – a specialist in the Alaskan climate from the ...
FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...
A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes in their behaviour.
Retreating glaciers created 2,500km of “new” coastline and 35 “new” islands in the Arctic between 2000 and 2020, according to a new study. The research uses satellite images of more than 1,700 ...
BEIJING--A Chinese radio station on Monday started broadcasts on Arctic sea ice conditions off Russia’s coast for vessels sailing the Northeast ... Bering Strait near Alaska, spanning 13,000 ...
One major consequence is that a new Arctic shipping route around the top of Alaska is expected ... and Russia to use the Northeast Passage, also known as the Northern Sea Route, since the 1930s.
Mark Synnott admits in the introduction to his new book that “it is out in the high and wild places in this world that I’ve ...
US Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, are traveling to Greenland this week, after the second lady's original itinerary in the Arctic island ... covers much of the northeast.