The 24-hour darkness during the winter near the Poles can disrupt sleep – this is how the people who live there cope.

The Hjertefølger family built a sustainable home within a geodesic glass dome and saved themselves a fortune in the process.

(Bob Wick / U.S. Bureau of Land Management) The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes ...

Its vast territory of 21 million square kilometres stretches from the North Pole to the Arctic Circle. Bordered by ... Its extreme climate means living conditions in the Arctic can be very tough.

The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a ... She added that these changes will affect people who live in the region, too.

At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea ...

this year marked the second-warmest average annual permafrost temperatures on record for Alaska and it was the second-highest year for wildfire emissions north of the Arctic Circle, the scientists ...

Picture the Arctic Circle itself, which has a radius of around ... Housing must often be designed so that living quarters are warm but the foundations are cool, so as not to melt the permafrost ...

The same effects of latitude can be seen in countries with territory within Arctic circle. Communities living in the north of Greenland, for example, suffer far higher incidence of Sad than those ...