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

The Arctic is undergoing profound environmental shifts, marked by unprecedented warming and ecosystem changes. A critical ...

Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change.

Economy & Environment Government & Politics Indigenous Affairs As Trump officials visit Alaska, feds announce plans to remove some restrictions on Arctic drilling The Department of the Interior is ...

At latitude 71.3 north, it will be 140 miles closer to the pole than Russia's Prirazlomnoye platform in the eastern Pechora Sea—the only other offshore rig currently producing oil in Arctic waters.

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed opening about 7 million more federally managed acres on Alaska’s North Slope to new oil development, resurrecting a pro-drilling plan proposed in the first ...

The CETB data set is hosted and distributed through NASA’s NSIDC Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).

According to HUR, the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute is officially carrying out “scientific missions” in the region — but actually, it serves as a resource-military project. Under the ...

ABC13's Briana Conner spoke with Tara Roberts, a diver, storyteller, and National Geographic Explorer, who is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

Quark Expeditions said in a statement that travel advisors still have two weeks to enter the Summer in the Arctic Sweepstakes, a limited-time contest exclusively for the trade. Six winners will sail ...

OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja were visiting the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Monday, at a time of increased interest in the ...