At 66° 33′ 39″ — north of the equator — there lies an imaginary line, beyond which it is almost impossible to live. Cristian Barnett has been traversing the boundaries…
www.weather.com: Fresh off the heels of an arctic blast that brought temperatures unexperienced in decades, the relentless parade of arctic blasts will continue with two additional cold shots dropping southward…
WASHINGTON –- The Obama administration on Friday proposed the first rules for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and…
Yet, until a surprising announcement from the Obama administration on Sunday, that’s rarely what the public has heard about Alaska’s highly politicized Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We heard that it…
WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will propose protecting 1.4 million acres (556,000 hectares) of Arctic refuge from oil and gas drilling, The Washington Post reported on…
The Earth’s polar regions are some of the planet’s most fragile places. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else on Earth, and snow and ice cover are…
Above the Arctic Circle in the Lyngen Fjord of northern Norway, researchers on the “Helmer Hanssen” are searching for the next generation of antibiotics. In these sea organisms, they hope,…