Lin Peterson embarked on a canoe journey through Canada's remote Northwest Territories this June, a trip his younger self once only dreamed of.

Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a ...

In the late night hours of Oct. 11, the remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed Alaska's southwest coast, bringing hurricane-force winds and record flooding to numerous Alaska Native villages on the coast.

On November 20, 1959, at a pier in Brooklyn, the writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the M.V. Venimos, a freighter bound for Iquitos, a port town deep in the Peruvian Amazon. He was fresh off the ...