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

National-security officials say Chinese submarines and icebreakers pose a new military threat from the High North.

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

Montrealers who brave frigid temperatures for weekly polar plunges in the St. Lawrence River are worried that they're being ...

Polar bears lose sea ice due to climate change, forcing them to fast longer and lose body fat, leading to emaciation. The photos sparked debate over narrative and accuracy, with experts urging caution ...

Interest in travel to the Arctic region has been so high that Svalbard introduced a passenger limit on cruise ships at the ...

The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took ...

The National Geographic Endurance is a comfortable base for explorations in icy waters, whether in the Arctic or in the ...

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...

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

This study was funded by grants from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S011188/1) and the European Research Council (SELECTHAPLOID - 101001341) The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in ...

Nature likes to show off, and it has a way of sculpting ice into jaw-dropping masterpieces. These glaciers look like ...