The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

Atmospheric rivers, those long, powerful streams of moisture in the sky, are becoming more frequent in the Arctic, and they’re helping to drive dramatic shrinking of the Arctic’s sea ice cover.

The Arctic town of Kiruna is subsiding and under threat from being swallowed by a vast iron ore mine. But what does its relocation mean for the local Sami reindeer herders?

A polar air mass is expected to send temperatures to record lows into the weekend, prompting frostbite warnings.

Meteorologists warn frigid weather could bring record-breaking low temperatures to New York, New Jersey and New England

As rising temperatures offered some hope for frustrated Texans shivering in their homes days after losing power in a deadly winter storm, another wave of frigid weather was taking aim at the northern U.S. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson says the duration of the icy storm that has plagued Texas and…

Interior department report recommends scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips’ Willow project despite Biden campaign pledge

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

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.