A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream. The lateral image on a flat plain resembles a textbook’s illustration of ...

Algae skate through Arctic sea ice, thriving in subzero cold and revealing new secrets about survival in extreme polar ...

A polar scientist explains the changes hunters who rely on the ice are seeing off Utqiagvik, and how those shifts are echoed ...

For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season.

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, ...

Scientists used ice cores and underwater drones during an expedition to understand how life survived in the extreme ...

The icy region under the Arctic Ocean is known to trap an organism which scientists long believed turned dormant. Since the frozen region had caught it, one would assume the organism wouldn't remain ...

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...