Anybody who has suffered an assault by swarms of mosquitoes in the Alaska Bush has wondered whether the world be a better place without them.

Researchers have discovered four new species of octopus in Antarctica with venom that works at sub-zero temperatures.

President Obama has moved arctic science policy oversight to a White House council, according to a news release from the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.

In a July 14 letter to President Obama, Sen. Mark Begich outlined Alaska’s energy priorities, as part of a dialogue over federal energy policy and energy legislation.

Canada’s main Inuit organization is defending the country’s strengthened Arctic shipping regulations despite recent criticism from the world’s largest association of maritime cargo carriers that the new rules are “drastic” and may violate international law.

It has been more than 150 years since Capt Sir John Franklin and his 128 men perished in the Canadian Arctic, their ships lost in one of the greatest disasters of British polar exploration.

The U.S. Navy and civilian scientists have established a program that enables scientists to use Navy submarines to collect data from Arctic regions that are normally beyond scientists’ reach.

A warming arctic climate could open up faster and more efficient sea travel routes but bring a risk of maritime “traffic jams,” experts say.

The ICESCAPE mission onboard the Healy is studying the physics, chemistry and biology of the ocean and sea ice within a changing Arctic.

Canada’s researchers lag in search for resilient polar microbes with potentially lucrative use in everything from laundry soap to cancer medicine.

The federal ruling states that the Interior Department violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to adequately consider the environmental ramifications of the proposal.

The Nunavut Research Institute has approved a research license for a controversial project amid howls of outrage from Inuit and environmental groups.

Shell says rising demand means deep-water drilling must continue, but that competitor British Petroleum’s massive Gulf of Mexico spill offers lessons. Meanwhile, clean energy is still being suppressed in the mad rush to destroy the planet.

Debate rages over whether ’soft-law’ approach can cope with hard issues of sovereignty that lie ahead.

The Obama administration’s six-month moratorium has put a freeze on new offshore drilling permits, but three miles off the coast of Alaska, there’s one unprecedented drilling project by BP that’s still moving forward regardless.

A world-renowned Ellesmere Island fossil site has shed startling new light on how warm the Canadian Arctic was about four million years ago – and just how hot it could get in the coming decades.

Climate scientists are turning the heat up on Alaska in a hope to test the effects of global warming on the region.

A Russian research vessel will leave Murmansk in mid-July to study the extensions of the Siberian shelf.

A mainland Arctic survey team will set forth from Xiamen, China, on July 1 and a Taiwanese scientist is invited for the first time to join the group.

Polar bear policy in America can be summed up succinctly: The iconic bears are threatened with extinction, and so far nothing much is being done.

An international Arctic forum, delayed when the eruption of a volcano in Iceland froze air travel in much of northern Europe, will be held in Moscow on September 22-23, forum organizers said on Monday.

A man who has lived in the Arctic since he was four is now capturing a wild world that’s changing fast as the planet warms up.

Already on the hunt in the Canadian Arctic for two of the world’s most storied shipwrecks — the lost Terror and Erebus of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated polar expedition in the 1840s — Parks Canada is now preparing to search this summer for another famed vessel from that era, Canwest News Service has learned.

Despite having substantial scientific operations in Antarctica and seeing ever more activity in its Arctic waters, the U.S. has been relying on a pair of aging, decades-old heavy icebreakers to maintain mobility in ice-cloaked seas.

Scientists are planning a large-scale, long-term ecosystem experiment to test the effects of global warming on the icy layers of Arctic.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says the temporary loss of the nation’s only working heavy icebreaker threatens the nation’s ability to respond to Arctic emergencies.

A major international study of Arctic sea ice has concluded that the recent, record-setting retreat is the worst in thousands of years.

Texas has had 102 oil and gas well blowouts since the start of 2006, without catastrophic consequences.

Emerging political divisions among the Inuit of the circumpolar world over Greenland’s plans to drill for oil in the Davis Strait surfaced June 24 at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s annual general meeting in Iqaluit.

The Arctic Winter Games arena needs even more repairs in addition to the $2.25 million in federal, territorial and municipal funds already committed to its renovation.