Nearly four kilometers below the surface of the Greenland Sea, scientists have discovered a thriving community of life that survives without any sunlight. Instead, these creatures rely on methane and ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

An incoming Arctic blast will send temperatures plunging and trigger a massive and long-lasting winter storm. But will it trees explode?

Beneath the Arctic permafrost, ancient organisms have lain dormant for approximately 40,000 years, preserved in a frozen state that halted their biological activity. Recent scientific observations ...

Arctic sea ice is frequently mentioned as if it shuts down life, but it actually does something far quieter. Microscopic ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked out onto ...

In the wake of the historic winter storm that blasted 40 states this weekend, a dome of Arctic air associated with the polar ...