As Arctic ice melts, global powers seize new opportunities to extract oil, speed up trade and boost their military presence.

To a large extent, among the broader body politic and the general populace, that remains the case: a 2016 survey of American citizens, for example, found that just 18 percent of those polled knew the ...

Swiss researcher Achille Capelli has found an open-air laboratory in Alaska. He is studying the polar ice shelf and is ...

Throughout his second term, US President Donald Trump has trained his focus on a sprawling but sparsely populated island that stretches into the Arctic circle ... off Alaska in recent years ...

It was summer in eastern Siberia, far above the Arctic Circle, in that part of Russia that’s closer to Alaska than to Moscow ... in particular—say all signs point to the need for urgent ...

Alaska is known for its vast wilderness ... in nearby Dawson City, Canada. The Arctic Circle sign is the main attraction of the bus route. Taking a photo next to the sign is a rite of passage.

The duo start at McGregor’s home in Scotland — they leave serenaded by a bagpipe band and, naturally, rain — into Holland, up through the Nordics, Arctic Circle, down to the ... across the Pacific to ...

It is shocking that 2C is plausible,” said Adam Scaife of Britain’s Met Office, echoing a view now shared throughout the climate science community. For three decades, predictions of this kind of ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine ...