The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

Considerable effort has been invested in determining when the Arctic Ocean might first become ice-free in summer, a.k.a. a “blue ocean event” and defined as when the sea ice area drops below 1 million sq. km. We don’t know exactly when the last blue ocean event happened, but one in…

Mark and his team are hoping to become the first people to ever navigate the Arctic's Northwest Passage by kayak. They will attempt to complete the task in 90-days.

NASA's Aqua satellite spotted giant ice swirls stretching for hundreds of miles in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's P'yagina Peninsula.

Putin is weakened and fears Nato encirclement. His militarisation of Russia’s northern border is intensifying, says Labour MP Barry Gardiner

Scientists analyzed the moose's brain and detected a variant of rabies usually found in Arctic foxes, suggesting it contracted the virus from a fox.

The Arctic Monkeys kick off Swansea's summer of big gigs

The Man Who Pays His Way: When hitchhiking proves more reliable than trains, something’s amiss

Editorial: Geopolitical fallout from the conflict in Ukraine is threatening an environmentally crucial region

Fresh alarm has been raised about the state of the climate after experts announced that ice-free Arctic summers are now unavoidable.