The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

Reindeer are loved the world over for their dark, expressive eyes, majestic antlers and magical association with Santa Claus. The moment you learn the cold, hard truth of how Christmas presents arrive under the tree is a harrowing one that blights many a childhood. But reindeer are more special than…

Norway is not breaching a century-old treaty covering the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by blocking Russian cargo to the islands, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday after Moscow threatened retaliatory measures. "Norway does not violate the Svalbard Treaty," foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt told AFP. "Norway does not try to put…

Russia said on Wednesday that restrictions imposed by Norway were blocking goods for Russian-populated settlements on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, and threatened unspecified "retaliatory measures" unless Oslo resolves the issue.

June records and all-time high temperature records have been set.

A heat wave that's already lasted more than a week keeps on baking the US, Asia and even the Arctic

"What's happening in the far north is off the scale."

Norilsk, which is located in the Arctic permafrost in Russia, has 45 days of continuous darkness per year and average January temperatures of -30C - and a lower life expectancy than average

The south will see sunny skies and highs of up to 24C while in the north it will be 15C and raining

These Arctic Wolf cubs retain their brown fur so they can remain difficult to see in their underground burrow and have started to emerge to the delight of zoo visitors.

‘They are the most genetically isolated polar bears in the world’

Scientists say they've found a group of polar bears in Southeast Greenland that seem to have have stumbled on an icy oasis that might allow their small distinct population to hang on