Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team ...

In the Arctic region, sea ice concentrations were below average in most ocean sectors outside the central Arctic Ocean, particularly in the Barents Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. Antarctic sea ice ...

with a stubborn trough allowing Arctic air to spill south. This dramatic contrast––visible on temperature anomaly maps––paints a surreal picture: The heart of Canada’s polar region will ...

“Over the last century we have seen a reduction of the overall amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean, reducing in area and thickness,” Stroeve continues. “Today’s end-of-summer ice cover is 40 ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

The remote Norwegian territories, both in the Arctic Ocean, are often mentioned together because of their geographical proximity and the fact that they are collectively designated by the ...

Use a map-based interface to spatially compare sea ice extent for any two days or months between 1979 and present. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ...

Icebergs are seen in the Arctic Ocean off the Franz Josef Land archipelago on August 20, 2021. (Ekaterina Anisimova/AFP via Getty Images) The ships of the class, named Project 23550, are Russia ...

The Northern Sea Route(NSR) is a shipping route along the northern coast of Russia, connecting Europe and Asia-Pacific regions via a shorter sea lane through the Arctic Ocean. Speaking at a session ...