With a new airport opening in the capital later this month and a clutch of expedition cruise itineraries available, Joanna ...

All people on Earth depend on the cryosphere. Snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost are significant reservoirs ...

Since September, the polar night of winter has been spreading steadily southward in the Arctic. But sea ice hasn't been keeping pace. During October, growth of the floating ice was held back by ...

This is the final installment of Barry Zellen's series on Arctic geopolitics. Thinking about the peopling of the Americas in ...

Scientists have discovered that the Arctic's vast permafrost areas are now releasing more greenhouse gases than they absorb, ...

Three of the five groups (Hadley, Berkeley and Copernicus/ECMWF) are very likely to show annual temperatures exceeding 1.5C above pre-industrial levels (defined here as the 1850-1900 period), while ...

Mesyatsev Island was formed from Mesyatsev Cape around 1995 as water from a nearby glacier flowed toward the Arctic Ocean, ...

Last winter, the eastern Pacific Ocean experienced a robust El Nino, which was marked by higher-than-usual sea surface ...

Extraordinarily warm ocean temperatures in the Atlantic are helping to fuel an unusually active hurricane season.

She has travelled hundreds of kilometres above the Arctic Circle aboard a Greenpeace ... while the melting sea ice contributes to rising sea levels worldwide. Scientists said on Monday that ...