China's 15th scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean concluded on Friday as the last members of the expedition team ...

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 ...

After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30, a casualty of ...

“The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...

Killer whales, also known as orcas, have officially made the Arctic Ocean their home — something that was nearly impossible until now. Historically, thick ice sheets blocked the whales from venturing ...

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 ...

I f you have ever wanted to follow in the wake of intrepid explorers such as John Cabot, John Franklin or Robert McClure ...

Atlas Ocean Voyages has launched a brand-new polar expedition for 2026: the "Canadian Arctic Discovery", a 17-night expedition aboard World Voyager, sailing September 21 from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland ...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, established in 1988 and credited with helping scientists and Alaska ...