The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

Loss of sea ice has consequences far beyond the Arctic. Today, the vast white expanse of this ice reflects 80 percent of the sun’s energy back into space.

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

Restoring Arctic ice could help mitigate global warming by preserving the region’s ability to reflect 80% of the sun’s energy back into space. Without ice, the dark ocean absorbs heat ...

Melting sea ice in the Arctic is opening up lanes in the ocean for the global trade route -- lanes that were previously blocked. In the near future, the melting will have a big impacts on major ...

He pointed to the size of the Arctic — 3.9 million square miles of sea ice on average — and how many pumps would likely be needed to freeze even 10 percent of that.

View across the ocean. With course to the northeast, across the Barents Sea, the German Polarstern research vessel leaves the harbour of Tromsø. In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has ...

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The ...

The University of Toronto-led study, published in Nature Climate Change on Monday, said the carnivores could be starved into extinction by 2100 as the Arctic sea ice continues to shrink at ...