The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

A heat wave that's already lasted more than a week keeps on baking the US, Asia and even the Arctic

Barentsburg (Svalbard) (AFP) - Russian flags flap in the stiff polar breeze, a bust of Lenin looms out of the snow and a vast slogan declares, "Communism is our goal!"

‘They are the most genetically isolated polar bears in the world’

Washington (AFP) - Polar bears face an existential threat from the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice, which they rely on as platforms to hunt seals.

Scientists say they've found a group of polar bears in Southeast Greenland that seem to have have stumbled on an icy oasis that might allow their small distinct population to hang on

The new discovery may point the way to preserving some polar bears as the Arctic warms.

Researchers say isolated group in south-east Greenland have clung on thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers

Temperatures in the Barents Sea region are ‘off the scale’ and may affect extreme weather in the US and Europe

Hans Island is just a desolate, kidney shaped piece of rock in the Arctic. But for 49 years, it has been the source of a rare territorial dispute for Canada because it sits right in the middle of the international boundary between that country and Greenland, an autonomous territory of…