The trip was a remarkable blend of learning and doing, with a 36-member expedition crew comprised of Inuit cultural educators ...

NUUK, Greenland >> After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 6,214 miles, the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage.

The Northwest Passage has an identity crisis. The US thinks it's international waters. Canada claims it as their internal waters. And as traffic through the arctic sea route increases, experts worry ...

Two expedition cruise lines have scrapped plans to cruise across Arctic Canada through the famed Northwest Passage because ice has clogged the route. Ponant has changed the itineraries for Le Boreal ...

Surreal: having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic. We all felt it —a strange and pervasive sense of giddiness as we stood on the outer decks of the ship. We were ...

Oden cuts through Arctic ice. Credit: Donglai Gong and Northwest Passage Project On July 18, a group of scientists and students set sail aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden through the Arctic waterways ...

There was a time when the Northwest Passage was a sort of maritime Holy Grail, a route so desired and sought after, but so elusive. For most of the recorded history of North America, the Passage has ...

In 1847, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 128 men disappeared without a trace while searching for the Northwest Passage, a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 175 years later, a team ...

For the first time, scientists have documented bowhead whales traveling from opposite sides of the Canadian High Arctic and mingling in the Northwest Passage, a usually ice-clogged route connecting ...

Crystal Cruises on Thursday announced its first cruise along the icy Northwest Passage from Alaska to New York on an itinerary that took two years to plan. The 900-mile journey sails through more than ...