An arctic air mass continued to grip much of the central and eastern United States on Friday, bringing dangerously cold temperatures and "life-threatening" wind chills to millions of Americans. But a ...

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

Beneath the Arctic permafrost, ancient organisms have lain dormant for approximately 40,000 years, preserved in a frozen state that halted their biological activity. Recent scientific observations ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...