NOAA plans to test Saildrones for Arctic Ocean mapping
The Arctic Ocean is expected to see a rise in traffic as ice melts and seas warm. Yet according to some estimates, only 4.7...
As sea ice melts, momentum grows for Nome’s Arctic port plan
The Bering Strait has been a crossing point for millennia.
In past geologic eras, it was a land link that allowed animals and people to...
A remote Russian Arctic town makes a bid to become a...
Local authorities in Khatanga, a remote community in Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, are aiming to develop the town as a transit hub for tourists attempting...
France’s Ponant announces the first purpose-built luxury cruise ship to take...
The French luxury expedition operator Ponant has signed contract with Vard Søviknes yard in Norway to build the world’s first non-nuclear cruise ship to...
After years of over-tourism concerns, Iceland now has the opposite problem
COPENHAGEN — Icelanders seem to have found the best way to keep the island free of the coronavirus while welcoming tourists at the same...
US Coast Guard launches study aimed at improving shipping safety in...
Months after the International Maritime Organization approved a set of shipping safety measures for the Bering Strait region, the U.S. Coast Guard is starting...
Ready or not, Greenland is poised to see a rise in...
Earlier this month I attended a wedding in the main church in Ilulissat on Greenland’s west coast, the Zionskirke.
I was not invited, I just...
With marine traffic growing, international shipping agency approves US-Russia plan for...
The Bering Strait, where vessel traffic is increasing as Arctic sea ice retreats, will have designated shipping lanes and island buffer zones to protect...
Why more than 20 bulldozers — and a plane — are...
Like every year since 2000, polar experts from Russia are making ready for takeoff towards the Arctic ice cap. First, two Mi-8T helicopters will...
Arctic tourism is an opportunity for Indigenous-led economic development
Leon, Nicaragua is a city known for volcano boarding. Tourists can pay to hike and then board down the youngest volcano in all of...
