The Arctic might soon become completely ice-free. And when all of the ice is gone, the world won't be the same. And while ...

No matter where you live relative to the Arctic, the discovery will likely impact you. Scientists make alarming discovery ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the ...

Chemical reactions in the Arctic atmosphere are accelerating warming and reshaping climate far beyond the polar region.

As part of the EU project ECOTIP, an international team of researchers, including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, has analyzed ...

Last week, expeditions finished in northern Quebec and the Northwest Territories. The remaining action focuses on Ellesmere Island, the Northwest Passage and Greenland. After a long weather delay, a ...

The Arctic an incredibly rich area. It is about the same geographic size as the African continent – about 6% of Earth’s surface area – yet it holds an estimated 22 percent of Earth’s oil and natural ...

Sailors on a fast-attack submarine became the Navy’s first-ever crew to receive the service’s new Arctic Service Medal, a decoration created last year to recognize missions that travel over, below or ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING ...

For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It's likely that you've heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest ...

Largest Park in the World: The largest park in the world is Northeast Greenland National Park, a vast Arctic wilderness known ...