Millions are bracing for subzero wind chills this weekend as the coldest air of the season hits most of the country. The ...

Another Arctic blast has been forecast to bring frigid air to a large section of the United States later in January.

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the world's most remarkable oceans. It's home to a multitude of unique life ...

dynamic Arctic ice pack. “By bringing together scientists from so many disciplines, we are able to dig much deeper into the emerging Arctic system, where cross-cutting processes are both responsible ...

The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean isn’t the unbroken white mantle depicted in maps. It’s a jigsaw puzzle ... Nansen and the Fram were locked in pack ice for nearly three years during ...

Most sea ice is contained within the polar ice packs in the Arctic and Southern oceans. These ice packs undergo season variations and are also affected locally on smaller time scales by wind ...

Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map ... Arctic means that the route is increasingly accessible for a few months each summer. And according to some estimates, Arctic ice is retreating ...

As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

to the precise positioning of current ice margins, and the use of all those tongue-twisting Greenlandic names. Getty Images The Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on Earth "The map is a ...