For centuries, explorers set sail toward lands that never existed, climbed mountains that were never there, and searched for ...

A Vermont-based research team recently returned from the Canadian Arctic with an unsettling discovery buried in the ice, ...

Three Arctic seal species have moved closer to extinction, as rapid sea ice loss continues to erode their breeding and ...

This video features breathtaking aerial 4K footage of the Lofoten Islands in Norway. Watch dramatic cliffs, golden beaches, ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are ...

Sara Francis/US Coast Guard The NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) and NOAA@NSIDC archive and distribute ...

The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States: For this region, a weak La Niña can be very unpredictable. Sometimes the jet stream’s ...

Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden world of nitrogen-fixing bacteria beneath the surface. These microbes, not the usual ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was ...

The Pacific Ocean along the equator is where a phenomenon called La Niña develops. La Niña is the “cool sister” to El Niño.

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

The Trump administration on Thursday proposed to loosen Obama-era safety regulations for the oil industry in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska to ease the way for petroleum extraction in the region, an ...