Well, wrap up warm, we're off to the Arctic Circle to find out! Brrr… It looks really cold here. There are not many plants ...

Scientists are warning of a catastrophic sea level rise if the ice in the Arctic melts, a very real possibility. The Arctic ...

A tiny elongate poppy seed and small tan spikemoss megaspores and black soil fungus spheres were found in soil recovered from ...

Since the end of the Cold War, the High North has been defined by the idea of “Arctic exceptionalism,” the common understanding that the region had unwritten rules, beliefs, and history that ...

The Yukon River flows west across Alaska toward the Bering Sea, eroding Arctic permafrost along its banks and transporting ...

Arctic plants that absorb mercury ultimately die and become part of the soil, freezing into permafrost. Once that soil starts thawing, however, it discharges the highly concentrated mercury into ...

As permafrost continues melting at staggering rates, the toxic metals it’s long locked away are reentering the wild.

The melting of permafrost in the Arctic could result in toxic mercury leaching into the waters of Alaskan rivers, putting millions of people at risk. This "giant mercury bomb" lurks within the ...

The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

They were stuck here more than 30 years ago by Russian coal miners, our guide Anatoliy Sergeev explains, "something on the wall to just dream about" during the long Arctic winters. Then one day ...

The soil samples contained fragments of willow and wood, as well as insect parts, spike moss megaspores ... you couldn't have had these plants." If the Arctic can become ice-free without human ...