After years of sending dozens to researchers to Nunavut's Devon Island, U.S. space agency NASA will only be sending a skeleton crew to Nunavut this summer, according to the head of the Mars Institute.

John Donovan is a writer based in Atlanta. He writes on a range of topics including nature, health, history, and pop culture. The largest uninhabited island in the world is a cold, empty, bleak place.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This small cemetery holds the graves of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers who were stationed on Devon Island’s Dundas Harbour ...

Image: The Mars Institute’s Moon-1 Humvee Rover on solid ground at Domville Point, Devon Island, in the evening of 16 May 2010. Larger image Moffett Field, CA and Vancouver, BC – An international team ...

Freeman Lowell, a prototype of today’s eco-warrior from the film “Silent Running” (Universal) Domes carrying Earth’s remaining forests from the film “Silent Running” (Universal) On the way up to Devon ...

Located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Devon Island is the world's largest uninhabited island, situated in Baffin Bay, Nunavut. Named after Devon in England, the island has no permanent residents ...

The weather on Devon Island is what a professional meteorologist might call "dynamic." The nearest actual weather station is in Resolute Bay, about a hundred miles and often a complete weather system ...

Mountain View, CA, – The Mars Institute today announced that its MARS-1 Humvee rover has reached Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic after successfully crossing the Wellington Channel, a 23 mile ...

Talk of sending humans to Mars hit a fever pitch this week following SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s big announcement Tuesday. He outlined an ambitious plan to begin sending cargo missions to Mars by 2018, ...