I was just four years old when my family moved to Baffin Island, Canada, where we lived in a remote village among the Indigenous Peoples known as the Inuit. I spent most of my time outside, roaming ...

There's a confounding dilemma for many folks trying to make sense of winter weather in the context of climate change.

For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the Arctic. Those photos seemed to confirm dire predictions, that as sea ice ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, ...

Climate change in Earth’s polar regions is emerging as an under-recognised driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue. A study by ...

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be ...

Deep in the ice-covered peaks of Norway lies the sleepy Arctic village of Svalbard. With fewer than 3,000 residents, its inhabitants are primarily wildlife. Arctic foxes scurry from their burrows, ...

Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at marine fish species living in the world's oceans by studying traces of genetic material in seawater. One of the most surprising results was discovering ...