These six award-winning polar images reveal how Arctic wildlife survives at the coldest edge of the living world. Here’s a ...

Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ...

Winter in Canada is something to celebrate. For a healthy dose of below-zero magic, lean into it with a thermos in hand, a ...

Winter transforms the American wilderness into a landscape of stark beauty and profound silence. Snow blankets the ground, ...

The cliffs rise from the sea like ancient sentinels, their rust-colored faces telling stories that span billions of years.

Discover how animals adapt to winter and what we can learn—from hibernation to staying active and warm during the cold season.

A genetic analysis of polar bears in southeast Greenland found that genes related to heat-stress, aging, and metabolism are behaving differently compared to polar bears in more northern regions.

Senior Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder Matthew L. Druckenmiller receives ...

The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a US science agency announced Tuesday, as climate change triggers cascading impacts from melting glaciers and sea ice to greening ...

The Arctic is a dramatically different place than it was 20 years ago, when scientists first began giving it an annual checkup—and its current state is dire. The first Arctic Report Card was released ...

The Arctic last season was the hottest it has been in the past 125 years. The extent of sea ice during its usual maximum in March was the lowest in 47 years of satellite recordkeeping. The North ...

Only 21 species worldwide are known to do this, almost all in northern climates, according to an article in the journal ...