The colony of thick-billed murres — also referred to as the 'penguins of the North' — at Cape Parry in the N.W.T. is one of the most isolated and least-studied colonies of the species in the world.

For centuries the Arctic was a frozen barrier that ships could not cross, forcing global trade between Asia and Europe through southern routes like the Suez Canal. That assumption is beginning to ...

Black carbon emissions from European shipping in the Arctic have been significantly underestimated, a new study suggests. Produced by the incomplete combustion of fuels in ship engines, black carbon ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable.

International shipping is on the rise in the Arctic region now that climate change regularly opens up transpolar sea routes in summer. That surge in traffic is leading to higher emissions of black ...