New research is challenging the ongoing debate about the Arctic's glacial past, suggesting that the region may never have ...

Arctic faces a new threat. Soot from Canada's massive wildfires darkens ice and snow. This speeds up melting. The albedo ...

As Arctic sea ice melts, Russia is racing to control new trade routes, extract untapped resources, and cement its military ...

U.S. President Trump's massive tax and spending bill planned to allocate more than US$8,6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast ...

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

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

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

In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is exacerbated by climate change. When most Americans think about climate change, ...

The research on black carbon needs to be updated as more becomes known about the aerosol, and that makes tracking wildfire ...

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Scientists have been struggling to understand why Antarctic sea ice has declined rapidly and continues to decline. Read more ...

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...