"We are doing it all day, all night." Veteran meteorologist shares inside look at grueling weather research in the Arctic: ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

Melting sea ice has been a challenge for wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic. A recent study published in Global Change ...

Parts of the Arctic are enduring exceptionally high temperatures — up 30 to 40 degrees above normal — because of multiple intense heat domes. One intense heat dome has progressed from northern ...

Cave data shows the Arctic was permafrost-free when Earth was 4.5˚C warmer, hinting at what rising temperatures could bring.

The Pentagon on Monday announced a new strategy to build up its presence in the Arctic region, which is becoming more contested militarily as climate change drives the melting of sea ice and opens ...

The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in the region: It was the rainiest summer on record, and plant life ...

Wildfires have transformed the Arctic, according to the latest report card on the region. It’s both a cause and a symptom of climate change.

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the world at large, causing ice to shrink by an area the size of Austria each year. Since the 1980s the volume of ice has fallen by 70% or more.

The Arctic is one of the regions most strongly affected by climate change. In recent decades, the temperature there has risen four times as fast as the global average.