Russian researchers have recently located a previously undocumented Soviet-era nuclear waste site in the Arctic.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic report card shows how rapidly and profoundly climate change is warming and altering the region.

The 20th anniversary of the annual report tracks how sea ice, snow cover and many other vital signs of the Arctic have ...

Michigan is expecting a surge of Arctic air this weekend, causing temperatures to drop significantly below normal. The cold air mass is also predicted to generate lake-effect snow across the state.

As part of the EU project ECOTIP, an international team of researchers, including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, has analyzed the sea off Greenland more comprehensively than ever before. The key ...

An Arctic air surge is causing temperatures in Michigan to drop below zero. The extreme cold is a result of a weakened polar vortex allowing frigid air into the U.S. A gradual warm-up will begin ...

The tiny town of Churchill has two of Canada’s largest pieces of Arctic infrastructure, but years of neglect have left them in poor shape amid growing superpower rivalry in the region. The tiny town ...

18:00 – 19:00 GMT | 13:00 – 14:00 EST | 10:00 – 11:00 PST Join us for this free online event with Dr Russell Arnott, who will dive into the captivating world of why the Antarctic and Arctic Ocean ...

On a dreary November day in Seattle, the U.S. Coast Guard put its past and future on display. Within sight of the Space Needle, three eye-catching red icebreakers towered over Pier 36. It was the ...

Marine scientists at The University of Western Australia have uncovered a fascinating discovery that could change our understanding of oceanic barriers. In a study published in the journal Deep Sea ...

Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the thinning ice cover, the Arctic and Southern Oceans are becoming far more ...

Oceanic manta rays dive to record depths of 1,250 meters (4,100 feet), according to a first-of-its-kind study to examine in detail the extreme deep-diving behavior of these rays. Researchers tracked ...