With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska's North Slope tundra can look desolate — especially to outsiders from the ...

Svalbard sits deep inside the Arctic Circle, roughly halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Its landscape is an ...

In its 2024 Economic Report, the Arctic Economic Council (AEC) highlighted the potentially pivotal role mining in Arctic nations could play in fuelling the world's increasing demand for critical raw ...

As autumn gives way to winter across the Arctic, the ground doesn't immediately freeze solid. Instead, soils often linger ...

Temperatures in the Arctic last year were among the highest on record, and the region continues to see the dramatic shifts that put it at the cutting edge of climate change’s effects, according to a ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic. Slow-moving waves deep inside Earth gradually lifted East Antarctica, building mountains and a high ...

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet over the last 40 years, according to research published Thursday that suggests climate models are underestimating the rate of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents. The shrinking ...

As East Greenland loses summer sea ice, humpback, fin, and minke whales are moving in and consuming huge amounts of fish and ...

The Arctic is heating up nearly four times faster than the Earth as a whole, according to new research. The findings are a reminder that the people, plants and animals in polar regions are ...