Arctic temperatures spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its ...

Melting at Record Rates The Arctic is melting at a pace that has alarmed scientists and environmentalists worldwide. This ...

The National Science Foundation has renewed its contract with the University of Alaska Fairbanks to continue operating the ...

Credit: Gary Banziger (NASA Langley) and Ralph Kahn (NASA GSFC/University of Colorado Boulder) NASA's most ambitious Arctic voyage to date has revealed surprisingly high concentrations of ice ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and ...

Modified floating wood could seed the formation of new sea ice in the Arctic, helping counteract the rapid decline of ice ...

The United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have evaluated the state of water and climate ...

While Arctic sea ice extent hasn’t definitively reached its seasonal peak yet at the time of writing, the melting season is about to begin any day now, at which point it will be clear whether this was ...

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.

Global sea ice reached a new record low in February, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Last month was extreme: Temperatures in parts of the Arctic spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its lowest level ever recorded for ...