The Arctic is known to be melting at an alarming rate. The region is losing its icy shield by 12% per decade due to excessive ...

"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 ...

Giant Mine, near the subarctic city of Yellowknife, was once one of the biggest gold mines in the Northwest Territories, said ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an ...

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 ...

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