How will a warming Arctic affect plant growth on Svalbard? Researchers encased plant plots in a thick layer of ice during the ...

Ice caps on both poles of the planet are melting. And not just a few. All of them. If all this ice melted, it would be catastrophic. How much would the sea levels rise? How would this impact global ...

Extreme ice melt in Greenland is expanding rapidly, with meltwater production increasing sixfold since 1990, new research ...

International shipping is on the rise in the Arctic region now that climate change regularly opens up transpolar sea routes in summer. That surge in traffic is leading to higher emissions of black ...

This is a typical icebreaker at work above the Arctic Circle, the fastest-warming place on Earth, a worrying environment that is changing and disappearing alarmingly fast. Much of it is an unfriendly ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

A closer look at Earth’s history shows that melting ice sheets temporarily increased stratification in the Southern Ocean.

Scientists have known for decades that polar ice caps melt as the planet warms. However, they have had a harder time untangling the complex variables that govern how fast ice melts and, consequently, ...

The Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the 'Doomsday Glacier,' is a massive Antarctic ice body crucial for global sea levels. Its position on descending bedrock makes it vulnerable to marine ice sheet ...

Some yarn shops around Philadelphia are running low on skeins of red wool, as local knitters and crocheters turn out scads of “Melt the ICE” caps in solidarity with protesters in Minnesota. The hats ...

The infamous weather pattern is actually partly influencing our weather as February ends. And it may again throughout the month of March.

In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided ...