When most people think of cruises, they picture turquoise waters and warm climates, but one traveler proved why Arctic ...

A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream. The lateral image on a flat plain resembles a textbook’s illustration of ...

A polar scientist explains the changes hunters who rely on the ice are seeing off Utqiagvik, and how those shifts are echoed ...

Even in late summer, sea ice used to cover about half the Arctic Ocean. However, the late summer ice has declined by about 50 ...

Algae skate through Arctic sea ice, thriving in subzero cold and revealing new secrets about survival in extreme polar ...

Sea ice floating atop the Arctic Ocean reached its minimum extent for 2025 on Sept. 10, covering 4.602 million square ...

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...

For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season.

Drive the E-69 Highway in Norway, the “Last Road of the World,” to the edge of the Arctic, under the Midnight Sun or Northern ...

The researchers found that only Arctic diatoms can move through actual ice. Temperate diatoms (species from warmer waters) ...

Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams. The ...