Iceland's Turf Houses Merge Beautifully With Nature This architectural tradition was brought to Europe by the Vikings more than a thousand years ago.

A single footprint found at the site of Swan Point, Alaska, may have been made by a tween wandering around his or her house, and archaeologists say this is rare evidence of day-to-day family ...

A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping scientific understanding of past Arctic climates.

Book review: At age 11, Elisabeth’s twin sister walked away from home, saying she would return soon. She never did, and that mystery drives the plot of Raymond Fleischmann’s riveting debut novel.

Standing in thick snowfall by the frozen river that bisects Skelleftea, a visitor might easily miss the 20-story timber high-rise that, in clearer weather, looms over this small mining town on the ...

The permafrost in the bogs of subarctic Sweden is undergoing dramatic changes. The part of the soil that thaws in the summer, the so-called active layer, has become thicker since 1970, and the ...

New study reveals that the bacterial communities that live in subarctic caves, which can give rise to products of particular interest to medicine and industry, are more diverse and complex than ...

Old motel becomes housing for recently incarcerated residents of Fairbanks, which is estimated to have 13 percent of Alaska’s homeless population.

In his new book, 'Perseverance', Stephan Kesting reveals how he survived a six-week solo trip in the subarctic, and what he learned about himself along the way.

My house has $650K in equity. Do I sell? Videos show water rising within minutes during deadly Texas flash flood Farewell ELO, the ordinary blokes from Birmingham who made pop extraordinary ...

Existing age estimates of American mastodon fossils indicate that these extinct relatives of elephants lived in the Arctic and Subarctic when the area was covered by ice caps -- a chronology that ...