“The Arctic is the most dangerous place on Earth,” warns Lars Saunes, former chief of the Royal Norwegian Navy, and now at ...

An ancient hornless rhino fossil found in the Canadian Arctic, Epiaceratherium itjilik, shows rhinos once lived much farther north.

A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society, Alley was a co-recipient of the 2007 ...

Scientists have known for years that the Arctic has suffered from more warming than the rest of the world. But a new study shows that it's much worse than previously thought. Researchers have long ...

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to ...

Washington, D.C. — Scientists have discovered a new window into the Earth’s violent past. Geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic suggests that ...

New research shows melting Arctic sea ice could be reshaping India’s monsoon, shifting heavier August and September rains westward.

Today, more snow than rain falls in the Arctic, but this is expected to reverse by the end of the century. A new study shows the frequency of rainy days in the Arctic could roughly double by 2100.

Researchers report direct observations of size-resolved ice nucleating particles in the central Arctic, spanning the entire sea ice growth and decline cycle. Their results show a strong seasonality of ...