Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a short series examining maritime geography and strategic challenges in specific ...

On Sept. 1, 2023, a team of researchers and scientists embarked on a journey from Kodiak, Alaska, to Tromsø, Norway, aboard ...

A Times photojournalist embarked on a nuclear-powered attack sub to see how the Pentagon is training for a potential war ...

Now, new research has found that Arctic Ocean sea ice is shrinking even faster than previously thought — and that the Arctic may start to see its first "ice-free" days within the current decade.

High School social studies teacher John Worell will be spending part of his summer vacation aboard the National Geographic ...

Vilhjalmur Stefansson was a quirky, colorful prankster and a brilliant international explorer who promoted a controversial ...

Its first voyage to the Arctic began in 2022. The unique vessel was built specially for expeditions in the Arctic Ocean's drifting ice. The vessel may be moored to a drifting ice floe to move with it ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea territory where oil, gas, and other minerals could someday be found and mined.

Explore how Bill Hemmer's global backpacking journey from the backstreets of third-world countries to the corridors of the ...

The challenges of navigating the merciless landscape are many, which is why the first humans to travel over the surface of the frozen Arctic Ocean to reach the North Pole, the geographical top of ...

The Arctic is setting records for low sea ice extent for this time of year, with the 2020 refreeze now 500,000+ square kilometers behind a record set in 2019 — a sign the region may be entering ...