President Donald Trump has announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the ...

Warming and freshening of Arctic waters can weaken ocean circulation systems that influence weather patterns across Europe ...

The Arctic report card shows hottest decade on record and sea ice coverage dropping 28%. Vanishing ice increases global ...

The Arctic has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, a new report shows, as temperatures skyrocket and ice rapidly melts ...

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches ...

If bowhead whales produce particularly varied and diverse calls in one area, it is very likely that the area is a breeding ...

The 20th anniversary of the annual report tracks how sea ice, snow cover and many other vital signs of the Arctic have changed, and the impact that’s having on people and wildlife.

Routes between North America, Europe, and Asia routinely cross Greenland, northern Canada, or the Arctic Ocean. At the same time, scheduled commercial flights almost never cross Antarctica, even when ...

The Arctic has experienced its warmest and wettest year on record, a long-running study by the leading US atmospheric agency ...

Behemoth wildfires forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes across Canada, making it the most impactful weather ...

The permafrost that covers much of the Arctic’s land surface has been melting since the early 2000s, and researchers have ...

This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of ...