"The lack of Russian data is a great loss for humankind." Scientists issue urgent warning as Arctic data reveals alarming ...

Typically, sometime in March every year at the end of the long Arctic winter, the maximum of Arctic sea ice extent is reached ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to claim Greenland for the US is part of a wider push toward militarization of the Arctic. Conflicts ...

Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor ...

The ice storm that swept through Northern Michigan was unprecedented in its scale and intensity. Meteorologist Harold Dippman of the National Weather Service highlighted that, "This is easily the ...

This is easily the worst ice storm in modern times — in the last 50 years — and you have to go back all the way to 1922 to ...

High-speed drones will be put to the test in the extreme Arctic environment as part of a project to assess how quickly ...

In 2016, the extent of sea ice in Antarctica dropped abruptly. Prior to this, the ice had been stable and slightly increasing. The loss of Antarctic ...

The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...