Permafrost usually hits the news as a hazard; a planetary risk. When this ice-rich ground thaws, it damages roads and ...

Far below the ice and storms of the high north, scientists have pinpointed the deepest known Arctic vent system and found it bursting with organisms that should not, by any intuitive measure, be able ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster. But paradoxically, the melting of the ice can also fuel the engine of the Arctic food chains: algae. Algae are the main food source ...