The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project ...

Arctic Sea Ice Day this year is focused on Beluga whales, launching a live cam in Hudson Bay for people to watch them swim.

Summer on the Lofoten Islands in Norway brings midnight-sun kayaking, hiking stunning mountains, and other outdoor activities ...

Belmont's Becca Pizzi broke the women's world record at the North Pole Marathon, completing the icy race in 4:46:26 and ...

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as centuries-old artifacts are revealed for the first time. Take a look at some ...

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Of the Russian Arctic seas, the Barents Sea is most polluted, and microplastics concentration there is significantly higher than in other Arctic seas, Head of the Plastilab laboratory at the Russian S ...

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

The Arctic Ocean, though smallest, significantly influences global climate and hosts unique wildlife. Surrounded by Eurasia, ...

Not Niagara Falls, not Angel Falls, but the worlds largest waterfall is one that humans cannot even see, and will never in ...

A music festival in Utsjoki, Finland, brings the culture of the Sámi — Europe's only recognized Indigenous people — to the spotlight under the midnight sun.

The rate of glacial melt is higher than ever as a result of our warming Earth, corresponding to the loss of glaciers in ...