The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on ...

Having abandoned the island in 1992, the human population of this extremely remote island was soon replaced by a pack of ...

Scientists say that the geographical North Pole is on the move and could shift nearly 90 feet (27 metres) by 2100.

Europe is riddled with eerie ghost towns, from depopulated military and mining towns and drowned villages to ancient enclaves ...

The Circum-Arctic permafrost ... also contains the location of subsea and relict permafrost. the gridded data are gridded at 12.5 km, 25 km, and 0.5 degree resolution. The shapefiles were derived from ...

Typically, sometime in March every year at the end of the long Arctic winter, the maximum of Arctic sea ice extent is reached ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

New research suggests continued global warming could put a major Arctic ocean current in serious trouble, and that the consequences could extend far beyond the North. Known as the Beaufort Gyre ...

Equally worrying, Russia has increased its naval cooperation with China and given Beijing access, and a stake, in the Arctic.

This summer will see record low Arctic ice and Russia has stolen a march on militarizing the strategic region.

“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 ...