Icebreakers are a special class of ships designed to navigate the thickest ice and open up the most remote and inhospitable regions of the world, like the Arctic. In this video, we take a closer ...

Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration and the Battle for Power at the Top of the World. By Kieran Mulvaney. Island Press; 240 pages; $30 and £24 Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in ...

Norway awards exploration permits to 20 companies Must drill to uphold oil, gas output, energy minister says Also prepares for more Arctic exploration Demonstrators, including Thunberg, protest ...

OSLO, May 10 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil firm Statoil plans to launch an aggressive exploration campaign in the Skrugard area in Norway's Arctic region, it said on Thursday. Statoil, together with ...