The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

Donald Trump appoints Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland with mission to make Arctic island part of United States.

Science is supposed to make the world feel more understandable, but sometimes it does the opposite. Ancient viruses frozen in Arctic permafrost for tens of thousands of years are now waking up, prions in the brain can trigger unstoppable fatal diseases, and hidden CO₂ pockets in lakes could erupt without…

Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say

The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took weeks or months occur over just a few days.

In today’s newsletter: As species across the world struggle to keep pace with global warming, ​how ​do we report the rare glimmers of hope without downplaying the accelerating ecological ​crisis?

An arctic air blast is plunging south from Canada, spreading into the northern United States

Aussie adventurer David Paabo has crossed Greenland's ice sheet seven times, swapping sand for endless frozen land and killer winds in the hardcore 600km trek.

A Danish intelligence agency report has warned that the United States is using its economic power to assert its will and threaten military force against both allies and adversaries

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be extinct by 2050 with total extinction predicted by the end of this century.