The Arctic's Shifting Landscapes The Arctic is a vast, icy world where numerous species such as polar bears, seals, and ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, on one of the northernmost points of land in the world, sits a small permanent seismic ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Melting Sea Ice The Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a pace that alarms scientists and nature enthusiasts alike. This ...

The number one issue facing the Arctic is climate change. Since the 1990s, Arctic sea ice has declined by 7.6 trillion metric tons, with the rate of loss increasing by 57%. Besides contributing to ...

Damage to an underwater fibre optic cable in the Baltic Sea, running from Ventspils in ... from St Petersburg to Murmansk in the Russian Arctic, police said. Last Sunday, Swedish police boarded ...

A new study reports that 34 percent of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) is actually releasing more carbon than its storing, and that number climbs to 40 percent when considering wildfires. While this ...