Cosmic dust trapped, or blocked, by Arctic ice allowed researchers to map 30,000 years of sea-ice history. Their findings ...

Another year of low sea ice is shaping Arctic weather patterns, and Minnesota is feeling the effects. Plus, it's putting ...

September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum, when sea ice over the Northern Hemisphere ocean reaches its lowest extent of the year. For ship captains ...

Breaking Down Arctic Amplification Surface temperatures in the Arctic have warmed more than twice as fast as the global ...

Researchers are warning that Arctic Ocean sea ice is melting at an even faster pace than previously thought — and the region could experience its first ice-free conditions sometime before the 2030s.

In the Arctic, there’s a chance that sea ice could disappear in the summer as soon as the 2030s. Already, since the U.S. government started measuring sea ice in 1979, more than 2 million kilometers of ...

The climate is changing and nowhere is it changing faster than at Earth's poles. Researchers at Penn State have painted a ...

The oldest floating ice in the Arctic appears in red on these maps comparing ice levels in 1985 and this year, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Arctic ...

Ruling from newly-elected government means deep-sea mineral exploration and exploitation will stop until almost end of decade ...

Majestic, increasingly hungry and at risk of disappearing, the polar bear is dependent on something melting away on our warming planet: sea ice. In the harsh and unforgiving Arctic, where frigid cold ...

Arctic sea ice, which is frozen sea water that floats on top of the ocean's surface, grows and melts during the year. Like ice sheets and glaciers, Arctic sea ice is disappearing because of climate ...

Winter is the prime season for bird watching on Cape Cod, featuring a wide variety of Arctic sea ducks. Essential gear for ...