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From the city of Reykjavik to the endless variety of landscapes and attractions peppered all over the island country, there ...

An arctic wind cut across Prudhoe Bay, sending spindrifts swirling as Energy Secretary Chris Wright stepped onto a podium hastily erected among oil wells and pump stations. The gray summer sunlight ...

Each spring, local hunters sit on the edge of the ice and wait for whales—a custom that’s at least 1,000 years old.

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An Inupiaq elder teaches his great-grandson to hunt in rapidly warming Northwest Alaska where thinning ice, shifting caribou ...

Last weekend, I and 1,800 others attended Terror Camp, a three-day virtual event celebrating polar history, science, and ...

Arctic air is sweeping the nation just in time for the start of meteorological winter, causing over 235 million Americans to experience below freezing temperatures through the end of the week. The ...

On a dreary November day in Seattle, the U.S. Coast Guard put its past and future on display. Within sight of the Space Needle, three eye-catching red icebreakers towered over Pier 36. It was the ...

THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE—Climate change is melting sea ice at a quickening pace, and in the process rekindling dreams that have beguiled seafarers for centuries: finding an alternative shipping route to ...

Meteorologists don't have the specific forecast ready yet, but there is a growing consensus that December will be a frigid one for parts of the United States. The National Weather Service's Climate ...