A researcher from the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine joined Vermont Army National Guard soldiers in the Canadian Arctic recently to study improvements to military cold ...

Earth from space This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.

Ice and snow reflect sunlight, keeping the Arctic cool, while large dark areas of open ocean absorb abundant solar energy, ...

Between March and May each year, 15 million black-legged kittiwakes gather from across the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to nest and breed on rocky Arctic cliffs—some making the journey from ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the whole planet by reflecting sunlight back into space. So its loss inevitably will affect the climate and weather beyond the Arctic, but precisely how remains unclear.

He was squatting in mud along the cool, wide Kolyma River, below a towering cliff of crumbling earth. It was summer in eastern Siberia, far above the Arctic Circle, in that part of Russia that’s ...

Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean as a shortcut between the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Explorers would take ships ...

The Arctic could be "ice-free" in the summertime as soon as the next few years, scientists said in a study Tuesday. That's the earliest date any study has suggested an ice-free Arctic could occur ...

Permafrost thaw in Kivalina, Alaska, is threatening villages and homes Cracked homes, buckled roads and ruptured pipelines are likely to become common in and near the Arctic as warming ...