The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

The year 2023 shattered the record for the warmest summer in the Arctic, and people and ecosystems across the region felt the impact.

The concerns of various indigenous communities, often echoed by lawmakers, conflict over oil and gas leasing in the Arctic.

Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic

Norway’s government and two large opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic

A new paper claims that the ozone hole above Antarctica is getting deeper, suggesting that it is not healing as expected. However, other researchers say the study's results are misleading.

As remote Arctic crossing points are shut, officers say they plan to stick to the job in the glare of a geopolitical spotlight

`Kilian Jornet won the 2022 Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc (distance 170 kilometres, elevation gain 10,000 metres) in 19 hours 49 minutes and 30 seconds. Stéphanie Gicquel skied 2,045 kilometres in 74 days, crossing Antarctica to reach the South Pole in temperatures as low as -50°. Thomas Pesquet completed a spacewalk lasting 6 hours and…

Vishnu Nandan braved extreme weather and polar darkness in the Antarctic as part of a 25-member team of the British Antarctic Survey. He installed a U.S.-made instrument to measure the thickness of sea ice, which is prone to error when measured using satellite radars. This year recorded the worst sea…

Finnish border guards and soldiers began erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia to better control an influx of migrants, officials said Wednesday. Finland said it will close three more crossing points, leaving only one Arctic point…

As food prices soar it is clear that food security is becoming an ever-growing concern for Canadians. However, not everyone faces these rising costs equally.

Earthworms are revered for the way they nourish healthy soils, and scientific evidence validates the affection gardeners feel for these industrious invertebrates. Nevertheless, research has shown that our soil-dwelling friends may be less benevolent as the climate crisis escalates and grants them access to recently defrosted northern soils.