This past weekend’s grounding of the Clipper Adventurer cruise ship near Kugluktuk, Nunavut, underlines the inadequate charting of Arctic waters, says a leading Canadian ice expert.

Russian media speculate that the Danish bulk carrier MV Nordic Barents is not fit for the journey from Norway to China through the Northeast Passage.

Russia has proposed setting up an open travel zone along with the creation of the Beringia Park.

People in Kugluktuk, Nunavut opened their arms to a tired group of unexpected visitors who arrived in the wee hours of Aug. 30.

Greenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four climbers began an occupation of the rig just after dawn.

What is it about the Arctic’s vast expanses and frigid climes that inspire public figures to push the envelope in front of the cameras?

China can make a valuable contribution in the Arctic region, Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in a speech at the China Institute of International of International Studies Forum in Beijing this week.

The HMS Erebus and Terror continue to evade maritime detectives 160 years after Canadian Arctic waters swallowed them into secret graves.

Canada is, as NATO’s top military commander Admiral Stavridis remarked in Ottawa last month, providing the Western military bloc and the Pentagon indispensable services around the world. In the Arctic as much as if not more than anywhere else.

Chinese icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) sailed for home on Tuesday after completing its fourth scientific expedition in the Arctic Ocean.

For 500 years, commodity traders have been trying to conquer the treacherous waters of the Russian Arctic passage – aware of its potential as a lucrative short-cut shipping route.

Canada will set up a research station at Cambridge Bay in the Arctic, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said.

A foray into environmentally sensitive Greenland must have looked like a bad idea.

Dozens of passengers from the Clipper Adventurer cruise ship arrived in Edmonton Monday, about two days after the vessel hit a rock.

Scientists have discovered why fish don’t freeze in the Arctic Ocean.

After 15 years, Russia has reactivated its Arctic Sea Route from Europe to East Asia.

Eleven Russian sailors drowned in the Arctic after their rescue vessel went down in stormy seas on a mission to try to help a fishing boat in distress, it was reported Saturday.

In a few days’ time, officials at the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum in Greenland will reveal the winners of a new round of licences to drill for oil and gas in its waters. The announcement promises to be explosive.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has had his share of photo-ops over the past few days as his annual Arctic trip winds through the nation’s great northern expanses.

Cairn Energy’s discovery of a working hydrocarbon system below the seafloor off Greenland’s coast does not necessarily mean the find will be commercially viable, the company says.

Alaska’s U.S. senators urged the Obama administration last August 26th to get Arctic Ocean offshore petroleum development back on track.

Canadian air force jets turned back two Russian bombers close to Canada’s northern border yesterday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office said in a statement.

Canada is home to plenty of ice, but the ancient, undulating ice shelves on the north coast of Ellesmere Island are something special.

The increasing significance of the Northwest Passage and untapped Arctic resources demand an unwavering surveillance over northern activity.

Above the Arctic Circle in Canada near Greenland, five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an underwater region that abounds with marine life — and possibly with oil, gas and minerals.

Canada says one of its top foreign policy priorities will be to work with other countries to resolve differences over Arctic border disputes.

New Canadian Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan apologized on August 18th to aborigines on behalf of Ottawa.

A new study led by a Georgia Tech climate scientist has shown that Antarctic sea ice has expanded despite global warming, unlike Arctic sea ice; but this is expected to change as greenhouse gases continue to warm Antarctic waters.

The risk of an oil spill in Canadian waters similar to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is low enough that the government shouldn’t ban offshore drilling, the Canadian Senate said.

OAO Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipper, and OAO Novatek aim to cut the time it takes to deliver oil and gas to China, sending their first cargo through the Arctic rather than the Suez Canal.