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

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

"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.

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

President Vladimir Putin held talks on Friday with top security officials about the status of Russia's efforts to legally expand the outer boundaries of its continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean.

For more than 100 years, people came to the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to work in coal mines

Rob Kerr was one of around 140 people at the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station who celebrated the life of Robert Burns