And they're off! Jimmy Graham's four-person rowing team has started their ambitious 10-day Arctic Challenge. Will the Saints ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Jimmy Graham has spent a year and a half preparing to row the Arctic Ocean, and he'll set out in just a few days. Here's how ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

Nuuk, Greenland — Greenland has a message for the rest of the world: We’re waiting for you. “Come visit Greenland,” said ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration and the Battle for Power at the Top of the World. By Kieran Mulvaney. Island Press; 240 pages; $30 and £24 Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in ...

Iceland and Greenland are experiencing record temperature spikes due to human-induced climate change. While President Trump is keen on annexing Greenland for its rich mineral resources, the ...

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to capture crucial data about the planet’s future.