If you hear that the polar vortex is coming, you should expect to experience a lot of cold. CLEVELAND — The temperature ...

The phrase “historic polar vortex” evokes a country locked in ice from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, but the most reliable ...

The animal kingdom can be rather unforgiving, but even the cutest animals have strange reasons to do some pretty gruesome ...

This spring, when I set out to report on the vanishing world of Inuit polar-bear hunters for The New Yorker’s Far-Flung Correspondents special centenary issue, I initially planned to head up to ...

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...