While diving into issues surrounding the Arctic Ocean, researchers discovered microplastics in the stomachs of dozens of seals. The research was published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. It's the ...

The National Geographic Endurance is a comfortable base for explorations in icy waters, whether in the Arctic or in the ...

Jørgen Berge and his team of biologists were tooling around in a Svalbard fjord in the middle of the night as part of a two-week-long sea-ice research cruise. Their motorized rubber boat was puttering ...

The remote archipelago of Svalbard offers travelers an unparalleled opportunity to witness some of the Arctic's most magnificent wildlife in their natural habitat. This Norwegian territory, renowned ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden world 3.6 kilometres beneath the Greenland Sea, where methane mounds and life thrive in complete darkness. The discovery could transform climate science and ...

As temperatures rise, reindeer face a growing struggle to reach the lichen they depend on. More frequent and intense droughts, storms and heat waves, melting glaciers, warming oceans and rising sea ...

Toxins released by long-extinguished fossil fuel fires and gold smelters are showing up in the bodies of Arctic wildlife, according to new research pointing to mercury released by pollution hundreds ...

June 12 (UPI) --Mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife are on the rise despite reductions in mercury release, according to a new study published Thursday. Researchers from Aarhus University and the ...

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the federal budget bill any day now. Though hunters and anglers have been celebrating the removal of Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s public land sell-off ...

Bids for oil exploration rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain will be opened on Jan. 10, a day later than originally scheduled, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has said.