The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

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

Langstone, Hampshire: Hunkered down out of the wind, away from its cackling cousins, is a lone Sabine’s gull

Bitterly cold weather will continue into Friday with temperatures dropping as low as -6C while there is expected to be ice and dense fog in parts of the country

A brewing storm is predicted to deliver a swath of accumulating snow from the northern Rockies to the northern and central plains

Social life in the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen — hemmed in by mountains, a glacier and a fjord on a remote Arctic island — has long revolved around its only church

The country has shivered in chilly temperatures for most of 2023 so far with freezing fog the latest to test people's nerves, but the Met Office has revealed warmer times are coming