At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea ...

In the 1990s, a single moratorium announcement wiped out an entire industry, leaving 37,000 people unemployed overnight. The ...

The Arctic recently made headlines after Donald Trump repeated his desire to buy Greenland. Trump cited national security ...

Arctic sea ice is undergoing profound changes, with older, rugged ice diminishing and younger, smoother ice becoming more ...

Whales enjoy long-distance relationships - synchronizing their dives with pals 60 miles away, suggests new research.

The Arctic is “where the confrontation of the world’s leading states is unfolding,” the head of the Russian Navy said at a recent forum in St. Petersburg where regional cooperation had traditionally ...

Less than 16 percent of the waters, which include parts of the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, Chukchi Sea and others, have been adequately surveyed. The US is a key Western ally that ...

For decades, the Arctic has steadily been losing sea ice, causing some climatologists to guess that the first month of an ice ...

In the Arctic, the old, multi-year ice is increasingly melting, dramatically reducing the frequency and size of pressure ...

A new study about Earth's northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously ...

In the Arctic, the old, multiyear ice is increasingly melting, dramatically reducing the frequency and size of pressure ridges. These ridges are created when ice floes press against each other and ...

A video of explosions near the base in northwestern Russia has people online coming up with theories as to what exploded, how, and where.