Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here ...

Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor ...

Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future ... Researchers in Australia put cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor.

Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere ...

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses humanity the most. It, unfortunately, is in short supply—especially among ...

Putin is offering the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in Russia’s Arctic.

The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of ...

Beneath a starry night sky in Anvik, Alaska, a dazzling aurora borealis stretched over the horizon in ribbons of green and ...

Crossing the Bering Sea was already one of the toughest parts of our journey through the Northwest Passage—but then everything changed. A major fuel issue struck in open water, testing our ...

The forests disappeared. The rivers merged with the sea. Entire communities were destroyed or displaced. The lesson from this is that the Earth doesn’t wait. It doesn’t pause for human civilization to ...

The Bering Air flight that recently crashed in sea ice off Alaska, killing 10, was more than 1,000 pounds "over the maximum takeoff gross weight for flight into known or forecast icing conditions ...