"Black carbon," or soot, that spews from ships and makes the Artic Ocean ice melt even faster is an increasing concern in a ...

Each year on 27, International Polar Bear Day draws attention to one of the Arctic’s most powerful predators, the polar bear ...

The mission will tie together various allied activities in the region, according to NATO officials.

The Kremlin's Arctic ambitions have been shattered by statistics.

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

Warmer Atlantic water from near Greenland is heating up the depths of the Arctic Ocean, which was previously thought of as one of the few places not significantly affected by climate change. The sea ...

A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.

In 2006, when the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, released the first-ever Arctic Report Card, scientists already knew the top of the world was in trouble. It’s now much ...

Moscow has long insisted the Northern Sea Route — running along Russia’s Arctic coast from the Barents Sea to the Bering ...

The Arctic Ocean is warming four times faster than the rest of the world's oceans, a trend that could potentially spill over to the rest of the world in the form of altered weather patterns and other ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with risks of its own.

Careful reanalysis of data from more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, does not have a vast ocean beneath its icy surface, as suggested previously. Instead, a journey ...