The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Unlike most other owls, snowy owls are diurnal, meaning they are active during the day, especially in the continuous daylight of the Arctic summer. Muskoxen. Image via Depositphotos. Musk oxen are ...

China wants to get involved with huge Russian projects in the Arctic, according to one of Vladimir Putin's ministers. Energy chief Sergey Tsivilyov said that Chinese firms were exploring the ...

The expedition cruise brand has launched a new excursion programme in Arctic Canada with Inuit Elders, local residents, and community-born staff. Launching in summer 2025, the community-led ...

Russia’s newest liquefied natural gas plant in the Arctic has begun using a second production line, even as the facility remains under stifling Western restrictions. Arctic LNG 2, a flagship ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing ...

None returned Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History In one of his last letters home, John Irving, a British lieutenant bound for the Arctic on an ill-fated voyage to discover the ...

Large Arctic mammals, such as musk ox and caribou, are heavily insulated against the cold and migrate to warmer areas in the winter. Smaller mammals, like the Arctic ground squirrel, survive by ...

Over the past few decades, scientists have discovered that these ancient Arctic animals can live upwards of 400 years and are often blind due to a parasite that attaches itself to their corneas.

Today’s musk oxen, relatives of Arctic goats, are smart, curious, and tough. Bulls can reach five feet tall and weigh up to 800 pounds; females top out around four feet and 500 pounds. Known to Alaska ...