Beijing has, in recent years, declared itself a "near-Arctic state", said Modern Diplomacy, and laid out plans for a Polar Silk Road that passes through the Arctic.

The Ellesmere wolves, living not far from the North Pole, are as wild and natural as any, but they are also unafraid of humans. Tame! To a biologist who for 28 years sought to learn all he could ...

Two fossil teeth found in northwestern Canada confirm that hyenas once lived in the bleak and frigid conditions of the Arctic, possibly hunting and scavenging caribou and mammoth across the steppe ...

The authors caution that "increasing trends of certain long-chain PFCAs (C9–C20), including PFNA, are observed in the Arctic, highlighting the persistence and ongoing threat of these ...

Along the way, they saw 22 muskoxen, one Arctic hare, and 31 wolves. Some wolves passed directly through their camp. Zahab and Vallely arrive in Grise Fiord. Photo: Ray Zahab ...

Arctic research has not been spared as President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk seek to slash what they see as unnecessary government spending. Already, cuts to the National Science ...

In the winter, Arctic sea ice levels covered 5.53 million square miles—about 1.1 million square miles less than last year—the lowest since records began nearly five decades ago, according to ...

Lure of the north: What Russia’s Arctic can offer Trump Putin proposes giving the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in the region.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Iqaluit in Canada’s High North, supposedly about Arctic security, was nothing more than a carefully staged photo-op. Carney has spent his ...

"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we’re trying to ask here is: Is the Arctic going to change fast, or really fast?" ...

The Arctic will be ice-free in the summer at some point by 2050, even if humans stop pumping out climate pollution, according to a report co-authored by Dirk Notz, head of sea ice at the ...

A sweet-natured hare wins the heart of a writer "Raising Hare: A Memoir," by Chloe Dalton, illustrated by Denise Nestor, Pantheon, 304 pp.