The Latest Breaking News from Arctic

Robert O’Brien eyes opening Arctic waterways as way to ‘cut down’ on use of Panama Canal

Looking for what to watch this weekend? 'Gladiator II,' 'Nightbitch,' 'The Arctic Convoy,' and more movie night hits just landed on streaming.

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.

Soaring temperatures are translating into more powerful freak storms and wild fires, an ominous trend for humanity

A 2018 satellite photo shows the aptly named Deception Island, which was formed by a massive eruption 4,000 years ago and remains volcanically active today.

Flooding, thawing tundra, ice loss, and wildfires abound — and it’s all happening in the Arctic.

Earlier this year our international team of scientists from the Refuge Arctic consortium departed Iqaluit, Nvt. on a 56-day research expedition in the far north. We were sailing aboard the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and our main objective was to study the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Yes, it’s that time of year when preparations begin for the arrival of that favourite festive visitor: Santa Claus.

Researchers say the tundra’s changes are driven by thawing permafrost and emissions from wildfires