On a nearly ice-free August morning, walruses flop ashore on Devon Island, north of Baffin. Walruses dive as deep as 300 feet to feed on clams and other bottom dwellers. In between dives they rest ...

A partial solar eclipse could be visible in parts of Ontario and eastern Canada this weekend. Around sunrise on Saturday, ...

The Late Quaternary glacial history of Baffin Island Ice sheets are an integral part of the earth’s climate system, but the chronology and dynamics of Pleistocene ice sheets is in most places only ...

The Canadian Armed Forces face this challenge on a larger scale. Its soldiers are almost entirely based outside of the Arctic ...

The journey features stunning views of icebergs and sheets of ice, encounters with wildlife like polar bears, and the challenges of freeing a ship stuck in the ice. The crew's efforts to traverse ...

In the Middle Ages, their tusks were mistaken for unicorn horns and were deemed so magical that Ivan the Terrible called for one on his deathbed – and even today, narwhal still retain a little ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

But each year at the summer solstice they return, 17 million marine mammals making their way through Lancaster Sound across the top of Baffin Island ... out on great islands of ice into Lancaster ...

The spectacular scenery on Baffin Island includes Mount Thor, which has the greatest vertical drop of any mountain in the world, and Mount Asgard, which has a unique cylindrical shape with a flat top.