Tensions rise as the US considers military options to acquire Greenland for its rare earth minerals and strategic Arctic ...

Oceans absorb about a quarter of the carbon dioxide released by human activity every year, slowing the pace of global warming ...

Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA ...

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

The Danish territory is largely uninhabited, but the president wants to make it part of the U.S. because of its strategic ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Since the Venezuela raid, Trump has again insisted that the autonomous Danish territory is vital for US national security.

An 18-year-old Mumbai mountaineering prodigy and Navy officer's daughter skis 115km to the South Pole, becoming India's ...