Study illuminates China's plans to swoop in and take advantage of new shipping routes and oil and gas exploration in the region.

2,000 light-bellied brent geese are missing after finding their usual winter feeding grounds frozen in an especially harsh winter.

Region helps cool the rest of the planet, but this winter's temperatures are not dipping as low as usual.

Rising sea levels, increasing methane gas in the atmosphere, arctic soil erosion, flooding and heat waves could cost the world up to $24 trillion by mid-century.

Canada plans to hold the upcoming G-7 meeting in the freezing Arctic, in hopes of proving its sovereignty over the area.

Glaciers around the world are melting faster than usual, threatening to eliminate some of our largest and oldest freshwater sources. Should we be worried?

More man-made toxins, such as mercury and chemical coolants, are reaching the Arctic and are increasing in the polar bear's food sources.

Researchers attached tiny geolocators to terns in Greenland and Iceland to track their migration.

As climate change warms up the North Pole, could some reindeer herds be going down in history?

The disappearance of impenetrable ice may make it possible to sail across the top of the world.