An innovative way is being created by scientists which will help them in "growing" ice and doing the impossible job of "refreezing" the Arctic Sea as initial tests prove promising. Scientists are ...

The Arctic is heating up at an alarming rate, two to four times faster than the global average. A study by researchers from ...

Ground is collapsing and massive lakes are draining in a matter of days. Thawing permafrost is having profound effects on the ...

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 ...

The growing threats is prompting officials like ... For the Coast Guard, less ice in the Arctic means more potential traffic. That brings possible problems, especially because the infrastructure ...

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.

And according to some estimates, Arctic ice is retreating to the extent that ... Marine expects shipping levels in the passage to keep growing, led by more mining projects across the region.

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or ...

Scientists discovered that in the distant past, growing inflows of freshwater from melting Arctic sea-ice into the Nordic Seas likely significantly affected ocean circulation, sending temperatures ...