The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

In the mid-2000s, soon after becoming Conservative leader, David Cameron hugged a husky on a trip to the Arctic, in what was widely described as an attempt to “detoxify” the Tory brand. Eighteen years later, Kemi Badenoch has promised to scrap the law that once made that rebranding credible.

An expert discusses the many ways that Alaska's arctic sea ice melt is affecting the lives of those who live in the area.

From The Thing to The Last of Us, dozens of sci-fi classics have warned us about this moment — but did we listen?

Right now, cold air high above Antarctica is up to 35ºC warmer than normal. Normally, strong winds and the lack of sun would keep the temperature at around –55°C. But it’s risen sharply to around –20°C.

What's a fact that sounds fake but is actually legit?

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape.

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror.

The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated at an Arctic prison in February 2024.

Yulia Navalnaya now demanding findings be released after the labs declined to over ‘political considerations’

Denmark is leading a military exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Greenland

Our planet continues to warm because of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The polar regions are especially vulnerable to this warming. Sea ice extent is already declining in both the Arctic and Antarctic. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting, and abrupt changes in both polar environments are…