The opening up of the polar region has become such a pressing issue that a new Arctic ministerial policy group - spanning nine departments - has been set up ...

The North Pole was above freezing on Sunday after an extreme winter warming event caused temperatures to climb more than 36 F ...

The sea ice in the Arctic was the second lowest on record for January last month, according to a US analysis released Tuesday ...

The world's second biggest body of ice - the Greenland Ice Sheet - is cracking open quicker than scientists had previously ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...

Past colonial atrocities and catastrophes have not deterred today’s global powers from vying for control of the Arctic.

I received a question from one of my younger readers, which showed a good understanding of weather fundamentals. He ...

A La Nina weather phenomenon is a cooling of the waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean ... in North Dakota is expected to overall be colder than normal, "seeing that transition to near- to above ...

Roxanne Beltran, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, is among 50 people from around the ...

One of Moscow's nuclear icebreakers has sustained significant damage after colliding with a cargo ship in the Kara Sea.

The science behind Arctic highs, and why they bring frigid temperatures, is about where air originates and how the air levels ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...