Arctic explorer Donald Baxter MacMillan came to Cape Girardeau in the winter of 1925. The 50-year-old Massachusetts native lectured at the auditorium of the Cape Girardeau Teachers College ...

The Arctic fox is primarily a carnivore that lives inland, away from the coasts. They are dependent on the presence of smaller animals (most often lemmings) to survive. Arctic foxes also hunt for sea ...

The ArcticCam gives the real-time view from the second floor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner building in Fairbanks, Alaska. The camera is looking south toward the Chena River and downtown ...

A combat air patrol of American and Canadian fighter jets was scrambled this week after multiple Russian warplanes were spotted in the Arctic, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said ...

A new study reports that 34 percent of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) is actually releasing more carbon than its storing, and that number climbs to 40 percent when considering wildfires. While this ...

The pack returned to feed on and off for a month. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the blue light of an early Arctic morning, seven wolves slid ...

With willows now tall enough to poke through snow, snowshoe hares can find winter food and hiding spots all the way to the Arctic Ocean. Typically forest dwellers, they’ve now colonized Alaska ...

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The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

The United Nations estimated that 2.33 billion people experienced moderate or severe food insecurity in ...

Toasty isn't exactly how you will describe the bone-numbing coming days. "Multiple waves of arctic air continue to gather over northern Canada with eyes for the central and eastern United States ...