Arctic glaciers are shrinking faster than expected — and it's not just heat from the sun driving the melt. Scientists working in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the high Arctic, are sounding ...

Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden world of nitrogen-fixing bacteria beneath the surface. These microbes, not the usual ...

Researchers discovered a way to listen to Arctic ice tremors as it moves. Their findings reveal how warming changes the ice’s ...

Sea ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean is at one of its lowest levels on record, yet there's no unanimity on when that ice will ...

Sara Francis/US Coast Guard The NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) and NOAA@NSIDC archive and distribute ...

BOULDER, Colo. — The Arctic Ocean’s pristine white ice cap, a defining feature of our planet visible even from space, could ...

President Trump has been warned to "get off the golf course" in the middle of the U.S. government shutdown. The U.S.

The Arctic “death spiral” refers to the rapid loss of sea ice caused by climate change. For walruses, this means losing the ice platforms they rely on to rest, raise their young, and hunt. Discover ...

July marks the midpoint of the summer sea ice melt season, during which ice declines rapidly under the almost constant Arctic sun, and melt ponds form on ice floes. Scientists study melt ponds to ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route ...