Winter’s last-ditch big freeze is about to make way for 100F record heat as the US sets stage for a "battle of the seasons".

The second largest desert in the world is the Arctic Desert, covering approximately 13.9 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles). This polar desert spans parts of Eastern Europe ...

The Arctic has long filled humans with awe, but there are now profoundly worrying signals coming from the frozen landscape at the top of our planet, and scientists are deeply concerned about its ...

So, whether it's surviving the harsh desert heat, weeks without food and water, or even the Canadian Arctic, the camel is one of the best adapters in the animal kingdom, and that's in large part ...

Without roads, trails or formal campgrounds, Gates of the Arctic’s 7-million-acre wilderness covers vast terrain, including the jagged peaks of the Brooks Mountain Range, glacier-carved valleys, ...

Every winter in the high Arctic, for example ... “People thought of the polar night as these desert conditions where there’s very little life, and things are all sleeping and hibernating ...

I’m a polar scientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team ...

Check your internet connection or browser settings. To map the record-low in the Arctic, I referred to the sea ice index provided by the NSIDC. Data is available as daily or monthly averages for ...

Arctic permafrost isn’t thawing gradually ... back in the Pleistocene ice ages, had been an unbroken desert of ice and thin soils dotted with sage. Instead, the abundant fossils of mammoths ...

An Arctic air mass kept its grip on much of the ... the Weather Prediction Center said. Temperatures in the Desert Southwest will surpass 90 degrees by Tuesday, the weather service said.