A NASA satellite captured an amazing image of the sea ice above Canada's Northwest Territories as part of its mission to ...

Do you think you know everything about the good ol' U.S. of A.? These fascinating U.S. geography facts are guaranteed to blow ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first century,” Steve Bannon, who served as chief strategist early in President ...

The Road Chose Me Join me as I travel the world overland. In 2009 I quit my job and set out on the adventure of a lifetime.

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of accessing mineral wealth buried in the permafrost and opening new trade routes ...

Russia has revealed the RITM-400 nuclear reactor—its most advanced yet—destined to power the next generation of nuclear icebreakers. At the heart of this initiative is the 'Rossiya', an ...

It is one dominated by the Arctic Ocean Basin. The Arctic is almost totally covered by water, most of it frozen. Some of its frozen features, like glaciers and icebergs, are composed of frozen ...

The Arctic Ocean is now emerging as a new area for economic exploitation. Estimates suggest that the deep sea holds as much as 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves and 30% of its ...

Russian media, the Moscow Times, reported that “since at least 2011, the Russian Defense Ministry has worked at a breakneck pace to reopen old defensive installations on the Arctic frontier and ...

The U.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Russia all have territories that reach into the Arctic Ocean. About four million people live in the Arctic region, many of them indigenous groups ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.