It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice ...

Planting trees has become a widely praised, low-cost way to tackle climate change. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, helping to ...

Rising temperatures could cause huge amounts of toxic materials to seep out of sealed-off mines into waterways ...

Harvard Kennedy School Professor John Holdren and Arctic Initiative director Jennifer Spence say multiple new threats are endangering both the Arctic’s vital ecosystem and its legacy of fostering ...

Denmark takes over the Arctic Council’s rotating chairmanship from Norway at a time when Arctic security tensions are fraught and U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to annex Greenland ...

Meteorologists and astronomers call the lengthy bright stretch there “polar day.” It’s the opposite of “polar night,” or the ...

Once on the brink of extinction in Scandinavia, the Arctic fox is slowly returning. Threatened by hunting and climate change, the animals' population had dropped to just a few dozen individuals in ...

When Kenneth Hoegh, a native Greenlander, thinks about the Arctic these days, he tries to focus on the common ground between countries rather than the increasingly fraught political relationships ...

opening new fishing possibilities for large scale trawling vessels in the Arctic. "The increase in areas suitable for activity could enhance opportunities, leading to increased economic benefits.

TROMSOE, Norway (AP) — Denmark on Monday takes over the Arctic Council’s rotating chairmanship from Norway at a time when Arctic security tensions are fraught and U.S. President Donald Trump ...