Maksagak has been instrumental in helping Real Ice to consult with the local community about their research, and she is ...

A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

With ice and permafrost thawing fast, nations are racing to exploit the Arctic's newly accessible treasures. Yet there are ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.

Typically, sometime in March every year at the end of the long Arctic winter, the maximum of Arctic sea ice extent is reached. Slowly through spring, then accelerating through summer, most of that ice ...