San Francisco: The 20th-century golden gateway to the Arctic
In 1936, the newly built Arctic schooner North Star of Herschel Island was loaded from a dock in San Francisco onto a larger…
Oil companies to benefit from Canadian highway to Arctic Ocean
On January 8, in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of the extension…
South Korean icebreaker leads expedition for methane hydrates
Featured image: R/V Araon and USCGC Healy off Alaska in August 2013. Four months after its acceptance as an observer…