A widespread swath of the country, from the northern Rockies to the East Coast, is bracing for a blast of Arctic air that will send temperatures plummeting this week and dropping even further as ...

so they walk on the sea ice and explore the glaciers near their base at Thule Air Base, about 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle and about 950 miles south of the North Pole. After piling on ...

Typically, sometime in March every year at the end of the long Arctic winter, the maximum of Arctic sea ice extent is reached. Slowly through spring, then accelerating through summer, most of that ...

(Read more about why Ny-Ålesund is the town with the cleanest air in the world.) Esther Horvath Marion Maturilli is a scientist studying Arctic climate dynamics with the French and German Polar ...

The expeditionary refueling of the Atlas A400M occurred during Exercise Arctic Phoenix at Bardufoss Air Station , Norway. [Courtesy: Royal Air Force] The Royal Air Force tested a tactical fuel ...

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost ... and it leaves behind tunnels and air pockets.