The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

Trees are advancing into the Arctic tundra and retreating from boreal forests further south, where stunting and die-offs are expected

The rarely-seen Greenland shark was found swimming off the coast of Belize in what was described as the first-ever reported sighting of the fish in western Caribbean waters

The beluga whale stranded in the river Seine in northern France was removed from the water early Wednesday in the first stage of an ambitious rescue operation, an AFP journalist said. After nearly six hours of work, the 800-kilogram (1,800-pound) cetacean was lifted from the river by a net and…

UN says temperatures nearly half a degree above average last month, as EU monitor records record-low Antarctic sea ice.

Authorities say a French woman has been injured when attacked by a polar bear in Norway’s remote Arctic Svalbard Islands

Polar bear attacks are relatively rare, but one woman was injured in an Arctic settlement when camping. The woman was flown to hospital by helicopter as authorities decide what to do with the bear

Environmental experts worry that they are in a “race against the clock” to save the emaciated Arctic animal

The beluga is slowly swimming in a basis between two locks, approximately 50 miles from Paris, and appears emaciated

Concerns are rising for a beluga whale which has been spotted in France's river Seine far, from the cold Arctic waters it is more suited, after it refused food and appears emaciated, a local official said on Saturday.

French environmentalists are hoping to feed a catch of herring to a worryingly thin Beluga whale that has strayed far from its Arctic habitat into the Seine River

Two caretakers at an abandoned Soviet mining village in the Arctic debate their unease at the country’s present and what became of the USSR