New research shows that human activity is even more responsible for melting Arctic glaciers than previously thought. Yoon Jin-ho, an environmental engineering professor at South Korea's Gwangju ...
A sweeping new study reveals that as Arctic permafrost thaws, it is dramatically reshaping rivers and releasing vast amounts ...
The shell of ice that expands atop the Arctic Ocean every winter has done all the growing it will do this season—and that hasn’t been much. In fact, the annual winter maximum sea ice extent this ...
The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...
The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the Trump ...
Permafrost sounds permanent, but there’s a catch: the top portion, called the active layer, freezes and thaws every year. In ...
As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the growth of tiny plant-like organisms (phytoplankton). But to thrive, they need ...
New research led by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that the travel time of underwater ...
The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the Trump ...
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