The United States Coast Guard encountered four vessels from the Russian and Chinese counterparts near Alaska on Saturday as they transited toward the Arctic Ocean for patrols. A U.S. Coast Guard ...

SVALBARD, Norway—Nestled high above the Arctic Circle, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is home to hundreds of polar bears and boasts prime views of the Northern Lights. Now the territory ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

On September 11, Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles). The 2024 minimum is the seventh lowest in the nearly 46-year ...

The Arctic summer sea ice minimum also stayed low this year, at 4.28 million km² (1.65 million mi²), making it the 7th lowest minimum in the satellite record. So far, 2012 saw the record minimum ...

A second member of a doomed 1845 expedition through the Canadian Arctic has been identified by researchers using a DNA sample from a living descendant. The bones recovered from a remote Arctic ...

A bold plan to pump seawater over the frozen Arctic Ocean could offer humanity a final chance to save the region’s vanishing sea ice. Field trials conducted this year in the Canadian Arctic to ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. After California residents Benny and Susanne Anguiano’s cat, Rayne Beau, ran off into the woods at ...

Russia is “fully ready” for a conflict with NATO in the Arctic, the country's foreign minister warned. "We see NATO stepping up drills related to possible crises in the Arctic," Sergey Lavrov said, ...

Also, the effects of climate change are being felt more in the Arctic compared to other parts of the world. Moreover, what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic so these changes are ...