The Arctic is warming at two to three times the rate of the rest of the planet,” reads the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

In the dim twilight of an Arctic winter's day, with the low sun stretching its orange fingers across the frozen sea, a group of researchers drill a hole through the ice and insert a hydrogen-powered ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

Melting sea ice is a global issue with far-reaching consequences.  As the Arctic and Antarctic are losing ice faster than ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

The initial results and observations from preliminary field experiments are inconclusive but encouraging. For example, the ...

The loss of Arctic sea ice has long been a graphic measure ... is transformed into a “blue Arctic” characterized by open water. Yet the decline of Arctic sea ice has been well documented ...

According to scientists, Arctic waters typically contain layers of water with different temperatures, salinity and densities, all of which impact the formation of sea ice and how long that ice lasts.

Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring element found across the globe, yet it becomes highly toxic as it accumulates up the ...

From the Arctic to the Southern, the five ocean basins are home to thousands of marine life and millions of square miles of water. The smallest ocean basin on Earth is the Arctic Ocean ...

The Cai lab will analyze how much anthropogenic carbon the western Arctic Ocean has absorbed based on carbon isotopes in the samples.” Onboard the ship, Zhou worked with a conductivity, temperature ...