Hundreds of polar researchers issue an emergency statement calling for urgent action to deal with the impacts of climate change in Antarctica.

A thawing Arctic will promote the release of greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide. Permafrost is ground that ...

Russia is developing a fleet of naval icebreakers. But none of them took part in the Northern Fleet's expedition that this fall experienced great difficulties in navigating across the Northern Sea ...

Churchill is a remote northern Manitoba town that not only lives with polar bears next door, but loves it. That's because the ...

A study in Scientific Reports shows the potential of passive microwave observations from satellites to estimate the thickness and winter volume of Arctic sea ice. Illustration image Pixabay The sea ...

High temperatures are melting Arctic sea ice, glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet. Since 2002, Greenland lost 5,900 billion tonnes (gigatonnes) of ice. To put that into perspective, imagine if ...

Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a ...

Scientists warned for the first time in a new report that melting ice sheets might be slowing key ocean currents at both ...

A polar bear walks on ice after pulling iself out of the Chukchi Sea on June 14, 2014. Even though the Chukchi Sea polar bear population has fared better than others in the rapidly warming Arctic ...