Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

The hardy Arctic fox spends its winters hunting alone across the frigid landscape. But these little foxes mate for life, and when spring arrives, it’s time to go home and reunite with their mate. A ...

Camels and beavers that evolved in ancient forests in the Far North were perfectly adapted for our world today ...

This decline of summer sea ice area has a multitude of effects, from changing local ecosystems to allowing more shipping through the Arctic Ocean. It also enhances global warming, because the loss of ...

The search for a long-lost Antarctic ship has unexpectedly opened a window into a hidden ecosystem, revealing a dense ...

A report released on Monday, November 8, 2004, warns that the world may lose its roaming, wild polar bears by the year 2100. And the projected scenarios for other Arctic natives are almost as grim.

Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ...

The way Botrynema jellyfish is distributed across the ocean may reveal a previously unknown biogeographic barrier in the ...

A polar bear stands on an ice floe near the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in June 2008. (AP Photo/Romas Dabrukas, File) (CN) — As record heat baked the Arctic for the third summer in a row, ...

We’d been jigging spoons for five hours. We drilled through eight feet of ice to reach water. We had yet to get a bite. “It’s so peaceful out here,” my wife, Tiffany, whispered, not wanting to break ...