A new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British adventurers Niall McCann and Finn McCann are on their way to climb Mount Asgard, the 2,015m twin-peaked granite tower in ...

Explore the glacier-carved fjords, coastal cliffs and remote headlands of Baffin Island—home to dramatic scenery, seabird ...

Ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result of warming, and are expected to disappear by the ...

In June and July 2012 a strong team of international climbers comprised of Hansjörg Auer, Riky Felderer, Ben Lepesant, Matteo Mocellin, William Peterson, Eneko Pou and Iker Pou forged 4 new free ...

You don’t hear much about the world’s fifth-largest island, certainly not travel news. But Canada’s Baffin Island, home to the country’s indigenous Inuit population in Nunavut territory, is quite ...

Baffin Island is the fifth-largest island in the world, and a bitterly cold slice of Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle. But things are heating up in Baffin. The Arctic is warming two to three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shira M. Biner, Kelly Fields, and Heather B. Smallpage have done a new 550m big-wall route on Eglinton Tower's buttress on Baffin ...

A combined team of geochemists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and California Institute of Technology has found evidence of high levels of helium-3 in rocks on Baffin Island—possible ...

OTTAWA — The federal government is shutting down its short-lived Nanisivik naval station on northern Baffin Island as a cost-cutting measure, and plans eventually to offload the property to another ...