By Veronika Samborska for Our World in Data The world is heating up. By the 2010s, the global average temperature of the air ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record-low winter maximum on March 22, 2025, with just 5.53 million square miles of coverage—well ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

In March, the Arctic is typically more frozen over than at any other time of year. But this year, the region had a record low amount of sea ice cover in March. That’s according to new data from Europe ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

The average air temperature at the earth's surface in March this year was 14.06 degrees Celsius, which is 0.65 degrees higher than the average for the period from 1991 to 2020 ...

"You cannot annex another country." This was the clear message given by the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, at a ...

Arctic sea ice hit a historic low this winter, shrinking to the smallest extent ever recorded at its seasonal peak. NASA and ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to claim Greenland for the US is part of a wider push toward militarization of the Arctic. Conflicts ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

Greenland's mineral riches are an increasing focus of the U.S. and, as the vice president recently warned, America's rivals.