An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...
The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
It is a world cut off from our own by thick blankets of floating ice, but some scientists are taking the plunge to learn how ...
At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and ...
DEEP in the Arctic wilderness, where temperatures plummet to -40°C and daylight is fleeting, an elite unit of Danish special ...
Beijing has relied on Moscow for access to the far north but a geopolitical realignment is under way that could see it frozen out.
Arctic sea ice growth was slow in February, leaving extent at record-low levels for the end of the month. In the Antarctic, ...
which combines the amount of sea ice present in the Arctic and Antarctic, hit a new low in early February and remained below the previous record from 2023 for the rest of the month. In particular ...
This data, which combines the extent of sea ice from the Arctic and Antarctic, has records that date back to the late 1970s. Previously, 2023 held the record low for global ice following decades ...
Because of climate change, the Arctic is warming four times faster ... (You can read more about what it is like under the ice in Antarctica in Katherine Latham's fascinating article about this ...