Offered during the line’s most recent “Canadian Remote Arctic” voyage aboard the 199-guest Ultramarine, the outings took place aboard the ship’s twin-engine H145 helicopters. Travelers who joined the ...

Researchers have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme North. Microbiologists explain that the Lost Hammer spring ...

The world's northernmost dinosaur discovery is shedding light on prehistoric life in the far north during the Cretaceous period, according to a new study published in the journal Arctic. A hadrosaurid ...

Editor’s note: I got an email from astrobiologist Dale Andersen (@daleandersen on Twitter) just before 8 pm EDT tonight telling me to get on Skype. Dale is currently working at the McGill Arctic ...

A new discovery of bacterial life in a Martian-like environment on Earth suggests our neighboring red planet could also be hospitable to some form of microbial life. Researchers found methane-eating ...

The following Twitter posts were made by Dale Andersen at @daleandersen from McGill Arctic Research Station (MARS) on Axel Heiberg Island on 27 March 2009: “Back up to the sat dish to restart the ...

Near the tip of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, some 750 miles farther north of where Sir John Franklin’s fabled 1845 Arctic expedition met its end, and just a stone’s throw from the magnetic north ...

McGill microbiologist looks at Martian-like environment on Earth and finds evidence of bacteria Researchers at McGill’s department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the ...

This release is available in French. Researchers at McGill's department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered ...