Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

A new analysis says human-caused climate change had a key role in the record-breaking heat wave in Iceland and Greenland in ...

How do Article Circle airports stay open even though it snows 200+ days a year? AeroTime visits Finnish Lapland to find out.

As the Arctic loses snow cover and sea ice, more dark-colored ocean water and rock emerge. Those dark surfaces reflect less radiation back to space, absorbing heat, instead. In addition ...

We traveled to Canada’s harsh Northwest Territories to report on a joint U.S.-Canadian military exercise aimed at projecting ...

are a very early example of an accessory used to protect the eyes from Arctic snow and ice. In the Inuktitut language, the goggles are known as iggaak. Carved from walrus ivory, the goggles were ...

Authors: Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder; Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder, and Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks The Arctic can feel like a far-off ...

In the 2024 Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 10, we brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, to report on the state ...