Have you ever stood under a vast, dark sky and wondered if magic was possible? Witnessing the northern lights feels exactly ...

We ventured across the Arctic Circle on a mission to stand at the northernmost point of the U.S. via the icy, storied waters ...

Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Makarov said about how the Arctic affects the Global South countries ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

A few snow drifts remain on June 18, 2004, on the Arctic coastal plain of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. (Photo by Craig McCaa/U.S. Bureau of Land Management) The Trump administration plans ...

As Trump vows to "get Greenland," direct flights from the U.S. are starting − on his birthday. Who will visit? What kind of ...

Mastodons could have followed the food back to Alaska and the Yukon. But for some reason, they never did. (Editor’s note: A version of this story originally appeared in 2014.) ...

But overall, the smoke was becoming less intense in the U.S. These maps show the smoke forecast for Friday and Saturday. The Canadian wildfire smoke forecast for Friday, June 6, 2025, at 9 a.m. ET ...

The Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) and the Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub (AAOKH) share the Local Observations Interface, which allows access to observations of sea ice, ...

May sea ice extent in the Arctic averaged 12.56 million square kilometers (4.85 million square miles), tying with 2004 for seventh lowest on the 47-year satellite record. Antarctic sea ice extent for ...