India's Arctic ties are crucial for monsoon stability and climate protection. Collaboration with the US is essential for ...

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

Arctic has lost more sea ice this year than at any time since satellite ... is thought likely that this year's melt will continue to grow. Nasa says the extent of sea ice was 1.58m sq miles ...

The effects of climate change can be felt growing slowly but subtly in most ... Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square ...

An international research team has made a groundbreaking discovery about photosynthesis in the Arctic. Their study reveals ...

suggest the loss of the minimum Arctic sea-ice extent is in the region of 13.1% per decade, based on the 1981 to 2010 average. A major report on climate change in 2007 linked the growing ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the whole planet by reflecting ... because that’s how glaciers grow—by accumulating layers of snow so thick that the stuff at the bottom gets compressed into ice.

Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic ... powered ice-breakers and develop port infrastructure along the Northern Sea Route.

China’s interest in the Arctic grew from scientific research into expanding its economic, diplomatic, and military presence.

Sea ice is dynamic. It expands and contracts ... As the Arctic summer grows longer and warmer, tundra shrubs grow taller and the Arctic becomes greener. Animals once unable to survive in the ...

As the sea ice retreats, that’s turned it into a major prize in Beijing’s ambitions to gain a foothold in the Arctic ... China’s growing interest in the region is “concerning given ...

Nevertheless, Chinese investment in Russia continues to grow. Chinese-Russian ... fast as in the rest of the world. Sea ice is frozen seawater. With less Arctic sea ice to reflect sunshine away ...