The unexpected threat posed by melting permafrost — including ground instability and infrastructure collapse — is outlined in ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

The US and other nations are eager to exploit the Arctic’s mineral wealth, but despite the thawing of ice and permafrost, ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

Thunderstorms are rare in the cold, dry Arctic, but a surprising event in August 2019 has scientists rethinking how these ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...

A rare and abrupt disruption in the Arctic polar vortex is expected to impact spring temperatures across Europe and parts of ...

The polar vortex is diminishing and meteorological conditions are fast shifting, which might impact the Ice Saints in May.

A significant disruption to the polar vortex over far Northern Canada will keep the pattern’s influence locked in our neck of ...

The Old Farmers Almanac has predicted the last frost dates across the U.S. for 2025 -- and some in the Chicago area might be ...

When the polar vortex begins to wobble and allows arctic air to spill south into northern Illinois in January, we usually end ...