Norway's Svalbard Airport, built on an unstable permafrost foundation, is the world's northernmost airport with scheduled ...

This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.

Arctic sea ice reached a record low in March 2025 ... which then begins to melt. This process takes roughly six months. The NSIDC said the measurement of sea ice taken Saturday, March 22, 2025 ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

When the 2,300-meter-long runway was built in the early 1970s, at Longyearbyen, no one expected that it would start to melt. ...

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice Data Center said the peak measurement taken Saturday was 5.53 million ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the Arctic, according to a broad international consortium of scientists with a ...

With ice and permafrost thawing fast, nations are racing to exploit the Arctic's newly accessible treasures. Yet there are ...