"There could be this giant mercury bomb in the Arctic waiting to explode," study co-author Josh Wes said in a statement. Mercury has been trapped in the Arctic for thousands of years. Natural air ...

A freezing Arctic blast of snow and ice covering more than 350 miles is set to barrel into Britain in a matter of days as a sharp reminder it's not supposed to be that sunny here, according to the ...

Over the last few decades, the global role of the Arctic has increased dramatically. Vast deposits of various minerals, oil, and gas have been discovered both on the Arctic shelf and in coastal ...

Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake ...

DC got an Arctic blast this winter ... And as such, they will literally bomb out, so to speak, create a pollen bomb in the time frame that they have allotted to them." Experts in D.C. are also ...

Permafrost covers about 25% of the exposed land surface in the Northern Hemisphere, crucial in locking away carbon and toxic metals like mercury.