The Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice at an unprecedented rate, mainly because of human-caused climate change. While the amount ...

A potentially explosive political tussle is playing out on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. And some fear the ...

Scientists tested a method to thicken Arctic sea ice by pumping seawater. This process created a thicker and more reflective ...

New research suggests the Arctic may be approaching a critical threshold. Here's what scientists are predicting – and why it matters.

The loss of Arctic sea ice has long been a graphic measure of human-caused climate change, with wrenching images of suffering polar bears illustrating a worsening planetary crisis. Now, new research ...

Most of the sunlight reaching the Arctic Ocean is reflected to space by sea ice, effectively shielding ocean ecosystems from sunlight. As the Arctic sea ice continues its downward trend, larger areas ...

A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet ...

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As a warming climate alters the Arctic landscape, beavers are moving northward, building dams as they go, creating new ponds, ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages. Now, a new study published in Science Advances challenges this idea ...

Over the past 25 years, the amount of summer Arctic sea ice has diminished by more than 1 million square kilometers. As a result, vast areas of the Arctic Ocean are now, on average, ice-free in summer ...

The loss of Arctic sea ice has long been a graphic measure of human-caused climate change, with wrenching images of suffering polar bears illustrating a worsening planetary crisis. Now, new research ...