The Arctic is no longer a frozen afterthought on the edge of military planning maps. It has become one of the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Temperatures in the North Pole soared above freezing over the weekend — with the high Arctic reaching 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 ...

Thunderstorms are rare in the cold, dry Arctic, but a surprising event in August 2019 has scientists rethinking how these storms form in polar regions. A team of researchers from the University of ...

An image from NASA Worldview shows how brittle Arctic sea ice is becoming due to global warming, with large patches of open ...

The polar mission is being carried out in order to better define Canada's claim on a portion of the Arctic seafloor, which is also claimed by Russia and Denmark via its autonomous territory Greenland.

A new subsea cable connecting Europe to Asia via the North Pole is being proposed by a group of Nordic education networks. At the Subsea Networks EMEA event in London this week, Erik-Jan Bos, senior ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The United States and Russia reportedly could work together to explore ...

The extent of Arctic sea ice has shriveled to its lowest extent for the year, heralding the end of summer. The ice covers about 750,000 fewer square miles of ocean than average — a testament to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Cecilia Blomdahl wasn't expected to stay longer than three months when ...

The high Arctic is an internationally neutral zone that has long kept away from geopolitics. But climate change has precipitated an unusual level of activity in the remote polar region as colliding ...

At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea and gannets dive. While biodiversity loss in the Arctic Ocean may seem ...