Deep-cut and steep sided fjords, mountaintops ballistic and snow-plastered, woods bursting with autumn color, and night skies alive with the glow of the northern lights—once said to be the vengeful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape.

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

Walruses are convivial beasts. Between hunts, raucous groups “haul out” onto sea ice to rest. In recent decades, the withering of Arctic ice floes has forced such gatherings onto land, where thousands ...

Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, ...

The Arctic is “greening,” author Jon Waterman points out early in his beautifully written and gorgeously photographed account of 39 years adventuring in the extreme norths of Alaska and Canada. The ...

The epic Arctic landscape of Svalbard will make its big screen debut this week. Action film star Tom Cruise has once again pushed the boundaries of filmmaking, venturing to the remote and breathtaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A leap and a plunge into the snow could earn this arctic fox its supper. Jupiterimages/PHOTOS ...

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren't one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can ...

Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, ...