During the short summer of northern Greenland tiny blossoms emerge from crevices in bare rock. Some of these plants may survive from a time when hardwood forests covered the region ...

An official photo description reveals what happened before the bear settled into the field of Arctic flowers, allowing Paetkau to capture the "surreal" winning shot. "A majestic polar bear ...

Microalgae are tiny organisms that convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

The buttercup is found only in the Kigluaik Mountains on the Seward Peninsula in Western Alaska. The Arctic flower is imperiled by climate change, facing threats from increased precipitation, rapidly ...

Every winter in the high Arctic, for example, the sun, hidden by the tilt of the Earth, vanishes for months. Meters of snow blanket the sea ice and block incoming light, leaving the frigid ocean ...

Some, like the Arctic fox and lemming ... the first Lapland bumblebee queen foraging on her favourite spring flowers. The problem then was to film the queen flying. Bumblebees can beat their ...

Finally we saw sunshine in the Arctic Circle. Photographer Rosie Thomas It was -18°C Temperatures in Finland in February are by no means warm, even with the sun. It was -18°C. Batteries were ...