"We are doing it all day, all night." Veteran meteorologist shares inside look at grueling weather research in the Arctic: ...

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 ...

As melting sea ice reveals new trade routes, resources and battlegrounds, the Kola Bay is emerging as one of Russia’s most ...

Above the Arctic Circle, the community in Kotzebue, Alaska, is watching sea ice disappear as the climate gets hotter. In the Western U.S., firefighters are battling increasingly explosive ...

Clouds reflect sunlight and slow down the melting of ice, protecting the Arctic. Ice crystals make clouds heavier and more likely to dissipate, leaving the ice vulnerable to rays of hot sun.

“This May, the melt ponds were quite unusual in the East Siberian Sea, which likely contributed to early melting out of the sea ice, but also because the Arctic Oscillation was strongly positive ...

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska.

Arctic sea ice has declined significantly. ... However, in September, which is typically when the ice has finished melting for the summer, the extent has decreased by around 12% per decade.

MAKE NO mistake, Arctic Sea ice is melting. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the maximum extent of the winter sea ice cover ...

“The melting Greenland Ice Sheet and additional flow from rivers into the Arctic Ocean are all contributing to the large blob of fresher-than-normal water observed south of Greenland,” she said.

In the Arctic Ocean, sea ice is shrinking as the climate heats up. In the Western U.S., wildfires are getting increasingly destructive. Those two phenomena are thousands of miles apart, but ...

Although anthropogenic climate change accounts for some of the melting, Arctic ice is disappearing much faster than climate change models predict it should. A new study in Nature Climate Change ...