Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage ... the wider North American Arctic region of Alaska, Canada's northern territories and Greenland is now ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently vanished after "completely melting" away.

"The map is aimed at scientists ... "BAS is the national capability and logistics provider for the polar regions," he told me. "It provides the ships and the planes and the expertise, and the ...