The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is to blame.

An Arctic air mass kept its grip on much of the central and eastern U.S. on Friday, plunging temperatures to record lows as snow blanketed central Colorado and the Pacific Northwest braced for an ...

Fingertips burning, I can barely hold my phone steady as Arctic wind whips daggers across my cheeks. My thermal vest has ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

In the frozen world of Antarctica, one tiny insect has mastered the art of survival. The Antarctic midge, the only insect ...

This tracked personnel carrier can float across the snow, crawl over ice and paddle through the mud. Oh, and it can swim.

With its Aurora Sky Station, snowmobile safaris and Ice Hotel, Sweden’s northern reaches are a pristine world of winter magic ...

A demonstration in Russia's Arkhangelsk Oblast went awry after two Russian-made Burlak all-terrain rescue trucks fell through the ice on the frozen Northern Dvina river on January 29. Shocking footage ...

So when they do this in the frozen Arctic, why are they not covered in ice? A new study reveals their secret to remaining ice-free is in the unique oils they produce that covers their white fur.

It was the last building on the outskirts of the village. One more step to the left would have led us right past it and out onto the frozen Arctic Ocean, just 50 yards away. Our bodies would have ...