An FBI investigation probing alleged election interference became a sweeping surveillance operation that secretly subpoenaed ...

A drifting science station designed for research in the Arctic is scheduled to carry out 10 successive missions from 2025 to 2046, where it will remain stuck in the ice for 90% of its expedition time.

Interplanetary dust laced with helium-3 that has settled on the sea floor has provided climate scientists with an urgently needed historical record of sea ice. That urgency stems from climatologists ...

The Executive Order opening up areas of the Continental Shelf to oil and gas development announced by the White House on Friday has provoked a predictable storm of outrage from environmental groups.

The Russian military plane touched down in heavy wind and light snow, then slid across the icy tarmac. That the large, four-engine Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter could land at all on the Franz Josef Land ...

In the great white-and-blue expanse of the Arctic with miles and miles of ice and water, harsh wind and waves, human contact is sparse. The population density of the Alaskan Arctic circle is less than ...

(Reuters) - Russian explorers dived deep below the North Pole in a submersible on Thursday and planted a national flag on the seabed to stake a symbolic claim to the energy riches of the Arctic.

This article reflects on the merits of the expedition as an anthropological method on the basis of a recent cross-disciplinary experience, involving biologists, archaeologists and anthropologists ...

As Christmas nears, so too do fun memes with purported wintery arctic facts. One popular addition to this genre is the claim that reindeer are the only mammals capable of seeing ultraviolet (UV) light ...