T he Arctic is slipping from Canada’s grasp. Years of neglect—by successive governments and especially under the ...

Imagine that you could travel back in time, to before Minnesota was settled. In this scenario, you’re an eagle, carving huge circles against a cobalt sky, riding a midday’s thermals, while below, ...

It was part of a rift system between Greenland and Canada. Image credits ... Greenland collided with Ellesmere Island and became a part of the North American plate. This was the last tectonic ...

A hidden landmass has been found beneath the icy waters of the Davis Strait, the body of water that separates Canada’s Baffin Island from ... By 33 million years ago, Greenland collided with Ellesmere ...

The remaining action focuses on Ellesmere Island, the Northwest Passage and Greenland. After a long weather delay, a charter plane dropped off Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard at Ward Hunt ...

It took 28 grueling days but Kevin Vallely and his teammate Ray Zahab managed to ski across Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic, through intolerable frigid conditions. “You’re going ...

Grise Fiord has a population of around 140 people. Located on Ellesmere Island just 1,500 kilometres from the North Pole, it is the smallest of Nunavut’s 25 communities.

Located 1,500 kilometres south of the North Pole on Ellesmere Island, the Nunavut hamlet of 140 people is the northernmost community in Canada.

From here, they will ski about 60km east over sea ice to Cape Columbia, the northernmost point of Ellesmere Island. This is the starting point of their 1,100km attempt at the first unsupported ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut ... to the shrublands above the treeline in Alaska, Canada and ...