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

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 ...

As glaciers retreat, the Arctic is rapidly evolving into a major global trade route, with ship traffic increasing by 37 ...

The icebreakers will be designed to navigate harsh Arctic conditions, facilitating year-round navigation through the Northern ...

NASA research in January showed Greenland alone is losing ice at a rate of 30 million tons per hour—20% above previous estimates. According to the EU’s Copernicus monitoring, Arctic sea ice in ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations.

above preindustrial levels. "The time period we investigated, the Last Interglacial, is an interesting and very timely period ...

A study finds that Arctic sea ice melting can disrupt ocean circulation and cooling, echoing scientists' concerns of ...

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 ...

Today, in 2024, a different group of adventurers will pioneer another new idea for Arctic exploration. They will not travel by ship, skis, sled, or plane - instead, they’ll travel by spacecraft.

One island of an archipelago far north of Russia has disappeared, satellite images show. Alexandra Barymova Lomonosov Moscow ...