A new company, Canada Coal, has started an exploration program to find out more about the huge coal deposit on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut. The company’s president and CEO, Braam Jonker, said he sees ...

Snowy owl with chicks during the summer. In wintertime, survival on Ellesmere becomes even more difficult. Winter on Ellesmere Island is a far cry from the tranquil summer seen in White Falcon, White ...

ELLESMERE ISLAND, CANADA - Much of Canada's remaining intact ice shelf has broken apart into hulking iceberg islands thanks to a hot summer and global warming, scientists said. Canada's 4,000-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten days ago, while exiting the Agassiz Ice Cap on Canada’s Ellesmere Island, Vincent Colliard fell into a crevasse. He shared ...

Twelve summers ago, Joel Barker was measuring gases wafting from the tundra on Ellesmere Island in Canada’s far north. One day he took a break from his duties to check out a report from a warden ...

factman@newnorth.net Adventure Adviser: Not surprisingly, there’s no permit required to explore the tip-top of Canada; there’s little need for crowd control since so few people actually make it up ...

If you were a plant, the Oobloyah Valley on Ellesmere Island would probably not be the first place you’d want to set down roots. The island in Canada’s Nunavut territory is located at the same ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to decades of friendly friction has come to an end, with the two ...

ELLESMERE ISLAND, CANADA - Much of Canada's remaining intact ice shelf has broken apart into hulking iceberg islands thanks to a hot summer and global warming, scientists said. Canada's 4,000-year-old ...