Maj. Gen. McKenna offers exclusive insights into the growing threats to the Arctic from China and Russia, and what NORAD is ...

Hoping to make the Arctic safer for bears and people, a conservation group created 'bear-dar,' a radar-based polar bear ...

Bear-dar is designed to survey the landscape and detect anything that moves. It can be used by communities as an early ...

The DEW system, the Distant early Warning Line was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada. They ...

LIVEBLOG: Follow Father Christmas and his reindeers as they leave the North Pole to deliver presents to all corners of the ...

Strong winds may create dangerous wind chills and blowing snow, particularly in the Upper Peninsula. A rapid temperature drop Thursday night could cause a flash freeze and black ice on roads. Parts of ...

In 2006, when the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, released the first-ever Arctic Report Card, scientists already knew the top of the world was in trouble. It’s now much ...

The Arctic last season was the hottest it has been in the past 125 years. The extent of sea ice during its usual maximum in March was the lowest in 47 years of satellite recordkeeping. The North ...

Hundreds of Arctic rivers and streams are turning bright red-orange, not from chemical pollution, but from naturally occurring iron spilling from long-frozen ground as temperatures warm. The "rusting ...

The acceleration of climate change has amplified the scientific urgency to study Earth’s polar regions. Traditional research stations are often permanent, carbon-intensive structures with significant ...

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches minerals from the soil into waterways. By Eric Niiler Reporting from the ...