A year-long experiment yields acoustic measurements carrying information about temperature and ice in the Arctic Ocean.

Polar bears need ice for their long term survival as less or shrinking ice forces these creatures to travel long distances in ...

These polar bears appear to be maintaining their physical health despite the loss of sea ice—their preferred hunting grounds ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

Earlier research has shown that the Arctic is warming significantly faster than the rest of the planet, leading to reductions ...

Trump’s anti-climate policies have already been damaging to the Arctic and global climate protection. Now his deeply ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

Scientists discover a tipping point that took place in 2000, where El Niño’s effect on sea ice loss in Siberia was amplified.

The Arctic is not just getting warmer. It is starting to behave in new manners in ways that are dangerous for nature. For ...

Dalhousie researchers have revealed how Arctic aquifers—permeable layers of the ground that store and transmit water to ...

An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing ...

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the sea ice melts rapidly.