As Russia displays military might in the Arctic Circle, the Western alliance is preparing a mission to increase its presence ...

The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could ...

Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more ...

A coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and blankets parts of ...

On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

Scientists warn that growing rifts in Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier could speed up global sea level rise, heightening climate risks worldwide.

Warfare drills are underway in the Arctic as allies step up their presence with maneuvers aimed at securing a strategic gap near Greenland.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for repeated prehistoric occupation in the remote island cluster of Kitsissut, north of Greenland, indicating the first people in the High Arctic were skilled ...

Boyd first traveled to the Arctic on a 1924 tourist expedition to the Svalbard Archipelago, lying halfway between Norway’s ...

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

National Geographic joined an expedition to understand the mysterious creatures of the ice-locked southern continent.