The Arctic's Shifting Landscapes The Arctic is a vast, icy world where numerous species such as polar bears, seals, and ...

A beluga calf born in July is growing and meeting the other members of Shedd Aquarium's pod in Chicago. Caregivers say ...

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been normal.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

In addition to swearing in Dr. Mike Sfraga as the United States’ first Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region, the State ...

The Arctic is the area around the North Pole that used to be known for being cold year-round. With climate change, ...

Tracking salmon sharks with custom-built sensors is helping researchers study ocean temperatures, salinity shifts, and ...

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...