The U.S. Coast Guard is turning to Finland to bolster America’s icebreaking fleet — a move driven by growing concern that the United States is falling behind global rivals in the race for Arctic ...

But spending time on the ice with people who rely on it for their way of life provides a different perspective. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed ...

The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than ...

"We see that Arctic cooperation is also very possible in our international context. For example, between the far east of Russia and the west coast of the US." Putin did not give details, nor did Trump ...

The luxury small ship company that started nearly 20 years ago cruising the Amazon is expanding to other remote, exotic locales. Next up: a new ship in The Seychelles and Tanzania and then up north.

Even I, who married my college sweetheart more than 40 happy years ago, read Lily King’s new novel about what might have been in a state of blubbery longing. For those of us of a certain age, “Heart ...

Researchers have long believed that frozen environments slow chemical reactions, but new research challenges this belief. In a study published last month in the journal PNAS, researchers have ...

A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream. The lateral image on a flat plain resembles a textbook’s illustration of ...

Alexandra Jahn receives funding from the National Science Foundation. As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of ...