This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Arctic Council, the leading intergovernmental forum that has helped create peace ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cruise of the Arctic Circle may take you through Greenland, Iceland, Norway or Canada – or all of them - Alexandra Daley-Clark b ...

On July 23, R/V Kronprins Haakon cast off from the coal quay in Longyearbyen. Around 30 researchers and 20 crew members will spend the next 50 days sailing toward the North Pole as part of the ...

A NASA satellite image captured open water just 37 miles from the North Pole. Scientists explain what the striking Arctic sea-ice snapshot means.

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 ...

A small seabird weighing barely as much as a smartphone spends its life chasing daylight from one end of the planet to the ...