Kiruna - Secretary of State John Kerry was engaged in a different type of Cold War last week as he met with representatives of nations bordering the Arctic at the conclusion of Sweden’s two year chairmanship of the Arctic Council.

Philip Goodeve-Docker was on an Arctic expedition, and he and two friends got into trouble when they were trekking across Greenland ice sheet.

The newest edition to the Iron Man franchise gets personal. The third installment of the series reveals fears and demons of Tony Stark.

A spring blizzard now being called Winter Storm Walda closed airports and freeways in the Central United States. The storm caused a train to derail, widespread damage and brought normal life to a standstill.

After 2012's unprecedented melting of Greenland's Ice Sheet, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) last week launched a new website dedicated to providing up to date satellite data and scientific analysis of what is happening in Greenland.

According to a research paper released this week, some of the world's polar bears may need supplemental feedings by humans in order to survive.

The Essex Country Library in Leamington, Ont. is finding books soiled with urine. To date 400 books have had to be destroyed, all from remote areas of the library so the perpetrator would not be spotted. They've been, let's be delicate here, pissed on.

Thawing of permafrost is expected to cause significant additional global warming, not yet accounted for in climate predictions, warn scientists attached to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in a report released this week..

So how is 71-year-old music icon Bob Dylan on stage these days? Still playing on 'Like a Rolling Stone'? Still 'Mr. Tambourine Man', a 'Jokerman' whose songs are a lyrical 'Hurricane' and who continues 'Blowin' in the Wind'?

New data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSDIC) reveal that Arctic ice is continuing to melt at an alarming rate. Summer ice in the Arctic may all but disappear over the next few decades, much earlier than scientists had previously predicted.

As long as it was frozen, forbidding, and relatively valueless, disputes over the Arctic were akin to bickering over who owned the frost in the freezer.

A giant iceberg which broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland is now on its way to the sea. Shipping may be affected.

Nuuk - NASA scientists say that in July, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a more extensive area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observation. Measurements show that Greenland ice cover has experienced unprecedented degree of melting.

Ilulissat - All is serene and calm for three tourists in the waters of Ilulissat, Greenland, until a glacial avalanche crashes into the ocean sending a wave of water and ice hurtling towards their boat.

According to scientists, an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier, The Associated Press reports.

U.S. President Barack Obama supporting gay marriage illustrates the incremental way in which change for the better occurs in our world. It starts somewhere and builds. For gay rights, Obama added a brick, and an important one.

Greek neo-Nazi group Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn) is attracting supporters, as support for the leading political parties wanes prior to the May elections. One government minister has warned there is a chance of Chyrssi Avghi entering Parliament.

The wildlife series Frozen Planet starring David Attenborough has dropped the seventh episode from its sales package to countries outside the UK.

A new study by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) indicates a pattern of global drought in some of the world’s most densely populated areas.

The four Greenpeace activists who had set themselves up for a stay, hanging from the rigging of oil drilling rig, Stena Don, surrendered to police Thursday.