Summer Greenland Season Wraps Up » Explorersweb
A commercial team from the guiding company Ousland-Colliard, led by Angus Staples, has completed its summer crossing of…
Thawing Permafrost Is Releasing Carbon, but Something Unexpected Happens
Permafrost in the Arctic stores large quantities of organic carbon. When the frozen ground thaws or coastal sections…
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
An iceberg from Petermann Glacier encounters Joe Island in northwestern Greenland, visible in images captured by the OLI…
Traditional Inuit Diet: Foods, Nutrition, and Health Effects
IntroductionAn overview of the traditional Inuit dietHow does the Inuit diet support heart and metabolic health?Vitamin D, nutrition,…
Plant life in the warming Arctic alters lush knee-high jungle
TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska (AP) — With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska’s North Slope tundra can…
The Arctic Through The Lens Of Photographer Piet Van Den Bemd
A POLAR BEAR’S FOOT PIET VAN DEN BEMD There are some places on earth where the landscape seems…
Ice Foils Ellesmere Island Sailing Expedition » Explorersweb
An international expedition that hoped to reach northern Ellesmere Island by sailboat, then climb some rarely attempted peaks,…
America’s Greatest Arctic Weakness Isn’t Greenland, Experts Say
President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to acquire Greenland, reiterated most recently at a NATO summit last month in…
Arctic: Climate change is making Beavers expand into Canada’s Arctic, where their dams are changing the landscape
North American beavers began colonising parts of Arctic in 2008. (Getty images) Beavers who are normally found in…
Satellite Images Show How Russia Is Winning the Race for the Arctic
Russia has spent the past decade turning the Arctic into a strategic stronghold. Meanwhile, the US has fallen…
Arctic Sea Ice Day: 5 facts about an at-risk, valuable climate asset
With the Arctic on the front lines of climate change because of its accelerating sea ice loss, July…
Less than 30% of Earth’s ocean floor has been mapped while scientists still have clearer high-resolution data of Mars than most of the seabed covering our own planet
Scientists say we have only explored a fraction of Earth’s Seas and Oceans Less than 30% of the…