Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

Chinese researchers traced 2023 Icelandic volcanic emissions to Arctic smog, showing 80% of Ny-Ålesund’s sulfur dioxide came from the eruption. A research team led by Professors Si Fuqi and Yuhan Luo ...

Maksagak has been instrumental in helping Real Ice to consult with the local community about their research, and she is ...

Lightning near the North Pole reveals dramatic climate changes as Arctic temperatures rise and storms intensify.

A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be ...

The warming hole might be a sign that Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down. This network of currents regulates Earth's ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

A research team has uncovered surprising evidence of cross-border pollution reaching the Arctic, originating from an ...

Accomplishing this will be hard at a time when some world powers are hampering research in the region. Scientists need to ...