On July 29, 1881, Navy Lt. Cmdr. George Washington De Long raised the U.S. flag on a desolate, snow-capped rocky island in the far northern Arctic Ocean. “I take possession of it in the name of ...

In 2007, two Russian minisubs planted a titanium flag at the North Pole at a depth of 4,300 meters below the surface of the Arctic Ocean, setting off a rush to stake out claims to the seabed. The ...

Support for Nature: American Arctic was provided by Arlene and Milton D. Berkman and Bradley L. Goldberg Family Foundation. Series funding for Nature is also made possible in part by the ...

VICTORIA, British Columbia — Canada is searching for sites along its border with the U.S. to install a new long-range radar designed to protect North American cities.. The so-called Arctic Over ...

Russian military make detailed map to back up Arctic shelf border claims ... The complex studies in the Arctic Ocean in 2019 used most up-to-date complexes and systems.

Temperatures leap 40 degrees above normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland ice sheet see record June melting And it may be messing with our weather. June 14, 2019 More than 6 years ago ...

A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point. Sea ice over the Greenland Sea near northeast Greenland. Arctic sea ice ...