The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

A second threat to some areas of the region will come from an Arctic cold front that will bring dangerously cold weather

New York (AFP) - The northeastern United States and Canada steeled themselves Friday for an "epic" Arctic blast that could see some areas record their lowest ever wind chill temperatures.

Thanks to a change in the polar vortex, parts of the northeastern United States will experience some of the coldest weather

"Polar vortex" has gained popularity and is used in the winter, when the Northern Hemisphere experiences its coldest months

Jessheim (Norway) (AFP) - Norwegian electric car owners have a word for the way they feel when they look nervously at their battery indicators while driving in subfreezing weather: "rekkevideangst", or "range anxiety".

Spildra (Norway) (AFP) - Gliding stealthily through Norway's frigid Arctic waters, world champion freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri defies the glacial temperatures and darkness to rub shoulders with one of the most fearsome sea predators -- killer whales.

Two new species of prehistoric primate were recently identified by scientists studying fossils from Canada’s Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic. The primates are closely related and likely originated from a single colonisation event, following which they split into two species: Ignacius dawsonae and Ignacius mckennai.

At 10:40 a.m. on a day in January, two powerful beams of light from the Svalbard governor’s boat pierced the complete darkness of the mountain-fringed fjord it was sailing. It was carrying the children’s choir from this remote village’s church to visit an even more isolated Arctic outpost.

There is currently a Sudden Stratospheric Warming underway, which was linked to the Beast from the East in 2018 - here's what the forecasts say for the coming weeks