Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth’s polar ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

A powerful climate pattern that dictates weather worldwide is projected to undergo a dramatic transformation due to greenhouse warming, according to a ...

In 1848, James Marshall was building a lumber mill in northern California for his employer, John Sutter. One January morning, Marshall spotted sparkling pebbles within the mill's outflow; Sutter and ...

Two months ago, Australia's domestic spy chief delivered a major speech about foreign espionage. The headlines that followed largely focused on the nefarious operations ASIO had disrupted and the ...

El Nino and La Nina climate cycles could undergo fundamental changes over the next 30-40 years under continued global warming, shifting from current irregular patterns towards highly regular ones, ...

A group of polar bears has taken up residence at an abandoned research station formerly used by the Soviet Union.

Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked ...