The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route across the top of the world, and it’s only made possible by climate change.

As climate change opens new sea routes, experienced polar captains like Whatley are coveted for Arctic voyages that can save money on the run between Europe and Asia. But as activity in the Arctic's ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage has ruled against the state of Alaska in an 11-year-old legal dispute that has significant implications for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and state ...

A forecast map from the National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Prediction Center warns that much of the central, eastern, and ...

At the edge of the ice blanketing part of the Arctic Ocean, the ice on Monday looked sickly. Where thick sheets of ice once sat atop the water, now a layer of soft, spongey slush slid and bobbed atop ...

A study of the “rusting” Salmon River and its tributaries in Kobuk Valley National Park suggests that permafrost thaw is ...