The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

"Very cold into early next week as an Arctic airmass sets in, bringing sharp to severe frosts, and ice or black ice on roads and footpaths"

ESRANGE SPACE CENTRE (Sweden) (AFP) - As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world's northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden's snowy Arctic forests.

The research revealed an ancient ecosystem unlike anything seen on Earth today, including traces of mastodons and horseshoe crabs roaming the Arctic.

Scientists say some of it is the result of random weather from storms, but some is from low sea ice due to climate change caused by people.

The Met Office says more could follow with temperatures set to plummet this week

Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it’s a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the…

Breakthrough pushes back DNA record by 1m years to time when region was 11–19C warmer than today

Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.

Scientists extracted two-million-year-old DNA from Greenland, revealing startling insights from an ancient world that mirrors our future on a warming planet.

The Met Office has extended the yellow weather warning until Friday lunchtime as temperatures hover around freezing point

Wintry weather is expected to blast a large swathe of the country this week, bringing some travel disruption and dangerous conditions.