Sea ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean is at one of its lowest levels on record, yet there's no unanimity on when that ice will ...

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen ...

They discovered a massive under-ice bloom that extended for more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) into the ice pack on the Chukchi Sea continental shelf. Based on their findings, productivity in the ...

Over the first three weeks of August, the average temperature in Fargo was nearly 4 degrees below average. One of the principal reasons for that change in the weather pattern was the development of a ...

ICEBREAKER CHANNEL, Northwest Passage — The Amundsen’s engines growl low, as if in warning. The ship steals ahead; its powerful spotlights stab at fog thick with the lore of crushed ships and frozen ...

Earlier this year Arctic sea ice sank to a record low wintertime extent for the third straight year. Now NASA is flying a set of instruments north of Greenland to observe the impact of the melt season ...

In 1958, USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, completed the submerged transit of the North Pole, proving it was possible to operate beneath the Arctic pack ice. Several other US ships, including ...

A line of pink lingers above the horizon, the April sun offering a welcome dose of brightness after the months-long polar ...

The Arctic ice pack is breaking up. Bad news for the global climate, but good news for commercial fishing fleets looking for untapped sources of wild seafood. Not so fast — The North Pacific Fishery ...

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 ...