By Ben Aris in Berlin Parts of both the Arctic and Antarctic have experienced historically high temperatures in recent weeks, ...

Polar Journal AG’s website is a comprehensive platform dedicated to providing information and news about the polar regions, available in multiple languages including English, Deutsch, and Français. It ...

Scientists have found nitrogen-fixing microbes beneath Arctic sea ice, potentially reshaping climate and nutrient models if ...

These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary between Arctic and more temperate air – dips deeply southward, bringing the ...

It’s not easy to swim 175 km (109 mi.) when you’re starving to death. It’s not easy either to try to survive when you’re shedding body weight at a rate of 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) a day. And it might be ...

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...