Last week, expeditions finished in northern Quebec and the Northwest Territories. The remaining action focuses on Ellesmere Island, the Northwest Passage and Greenland. After a long weather delay, a ...

The Arctic is undergoing rapid changes, prompting researchers to deploy an unprecedented fleet of drones under the ice. This ...

The latest scientific assessments from the far north describe an Arctic that is not just warming, but rapidly crossing ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the ...

The ice floe has cracked in two. To the untrained eye, the floe appears vast and unchanging. In nearly every direction, a sculpture garden of snow and ice stretches toward the horizon, where it ...

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, feasting on seals and occasionally other sea mammals. Its hunting skills ...

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING ...

Scientists found that sea ice cracks, pollution, and cloud formation interact to amplify Arctic warming faster than expected.

In the middle of the night in the middle of the summer in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet, I woke to find myself with a blinding headache. An anxious person living in anxious times, I’ve had ...

As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the growth of tiny plant-like organisms (phytoplankton). But to thrive, they need ...