Although human hunting played a part in the demise of the woolly mammoth about 10,000 years ago, homo sapiens were but bit players in a global drama involving climate change, comet...

A new study released at this week’s International Polar Year Conference finds the energy dynamics of the Arctic Ocean changing drastically, and in ways not foreseen by previous cli...

Mother Earth is in for a destructive ride into the future, according to the full report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released this week called "Managing the R...

We hear a lot about what carbon emissions do to the atmosphere; what's less well known is that carbon pollution affects the planet's water as well...

The snow leopard is notoriously camera-shy—it is also endangered, with something like 4,500 to 7,500 left in the wild...

"Arctic Story," a full-length documentary by photographer Jenny E...

In 1947, directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist (BAS) devised a metaphor for the world's nearness to self-annihilation they called the "Doomsday Clock." Armageddon is sy...

Manitoba aboriginals are suffering from a lack of cold weather, as warmer than usual temperatures prevent the construction of ice roads to bring in supplies...

He Ain’t No Geronimo The use of the code name “Geronimo” in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden shows that insensitivity won’t die...