At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Continuously hotter summers and less sea ice are remaking the Arctic. Some researchers wonder what opportunities might appear ...

I witnessed both the agony and the ecstasy of the mystic Arctic landscape during the three-week expedition on a French ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Arctic has lost more sea ice this year ... storms to generate big waves which break up the remaining ice and accelerate its melt. “Implications are serious: the increased open water lowers ...

Many similar ice melting processes make the Alpine glaciers an important testing ground for Arctic research. Polar and ice ...

Guest columnist Barry Zellen is back with a multiple-part series about how the Arctic region was formed from the Ice Ages to ...

Ben Taub reports from the wilds of Norway. Plus: Donald Trump’s new “voodoo economics”; the continuing chaos at Columbia; and ...

Greenland's ice melt is accelerating due to climate change, doubling extreme melt episodes and raising sea levels.

Climate change is accelerating the melting of ice in Greenland at an alarming rate, with serious implications not only for the Arctic, but also for the global climate, including Europe. According to a ...

As the planet's temperature continues to rise, the geology and ecology of the Arctic is rapidly changing, Martin Stew reports ...

Alaska could be center stage for global conflict.