New research shows that human activity is even more responsible for melting Arctic glaciers than previously thought. Yoon Jin-ho, an environmental engineering professor at South Korea's Gwangju ...

To understand what the future holds for Earth’s northernmost waters, scientists are burrowing deep below the seabed.

A study has provided new evidence of beavers' expansion into the Canadian Arctic by dating the changes they have made to the ...

Scientists have been able to track the mammals' colonization of territory within the Arctic Circle. The post Climate change ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea ice breaking in Svalbard after a ship passes through. (MB Photography/Getty Images) The shell of ice that expands atop the ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

Portugal is the first country in recent history to operate a conventional submarine under the Arctic ice. The Navy's ...

Blocking the narrow waterway between Russia and Alaska could help stabilize a vulnerable system of ocean currents, scientists ...

The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the Trump ...

Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature have recently been studying the skeletal remains of a rhinoceros. This might not sound remarkable at first, but what makes these remains fascinating is ...

The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the Trump ...