The polar regions are the coldest places on Earth. During the summer, the poles receive 24 hours of sunlight, but during the winter the sun is rarely visible. Animals that inhabit nature’s freezers ...

When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way and wander onto the frozen Arctic Ocean.

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

Aurora also offers two shorter expeditions in 2026: the 17-day Arctic Golden Autumn & Northern Lights itinerary in August and ...

During a rare Gulf Coast freeze, biologist Scott Solomon went to Brazos Bend State Park to observe how wildlife cope. An alligator surprised him.

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as ...

Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of tundra to use as fuel for heat, as the frozen grass was soaked with ...

It’s not just Gates of the Arctic either; Alaska has some of the least visited national parks of all, with Wrangell-St. Elias ...

On Jan. 23, 1971, a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp measured a temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Camp Menogyn was where Arneson got into canoe tripping. When she was 18, she went on a 50-day paddle journey through Nunavut, ...

Project could inform strategies for Buffalo and New York State by evaluating housing in a part of the country where climate ...

The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...