Greenland's main opposition party wins parliamentary election after securing more than a third of the votes. The Community of the People party is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals.
These are the smallest polar ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctic this time of year in the 38-year satellite record.
Melting in the Arctic is an example of climate changes that, if not stopped and reversed, could become drivers of climate change in their own right.
Barneo Camp is probably the most exclusive Russian resort in the world — even though it’s not in Russia. And it's not exactly a resort.
NASA says January 2016's temperatures were the "greatest departure from average" of any month on record. That's globally. But the spike in temperatures last month was particularly pronounced in the Arctic.
About a decade ago, several of Greenland's biggest glaciers suddenly began melting. A decade later, two groups of scientists are trying to unlock the secrets behind a scientific mystery story with potentially big consequences for the future of the island's rapidly-melting ice sheet.
The North Pole is where we send letters to Santa Claus. But this was not always the case. The Turkish origins of St. Nick — and how he settled so far north.
Just months after dodging protesters to send an exploratory drill rig to the Arctic Ocean, Shell has pulled the plug on its oil drilling plans there.
President Barack Obama becomes the first sitting president to head north of the Arctic Circle. His focus is climate change, but it could also be about claiming new land for the US.
The appearance of the "Pizzly" bear, a grizzly-polar bear hybrid, is just one example of a recent natural phenomenon scientists think is the result of climate change.
President Obama has given Shell the green light to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean, but activists and politicians in Seattle are throwing up as many stop signs as they can as the drilling rig preps there for its journey north. It's the latest flashpoint in the growing international anti-fossil fuel movement.