"Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetime," warn scientists ...

"Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea-level rise is possible within our lifetimes," warn scientists specializing in polar research at the recently concluded Australian Antarctic ...

"Specialist" lifeforms that live under Arctic sea ice are at risk as the ice retreats, new research shows. Scientists studied ...

"Specialist" lifeforms that live under Arctic sea ice are at risk as the ice retreats, new research shows. Scientists studied microscopic organisms in four environments -- open ocean, river mouths, ...

Swap overcrowded ice rinks for the real thing, and skate beneath the aurora borealis on the frozen sea in Swedish Lapland.

NASA scientists have made a remarkable discovery while flying over the arctic ice in Greenland: an abandoned Cold War base.

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

The cost of reversing the effects of climate change -- restoring melted polar sea ice, for example -- quickly climbs nearly fourfold soon after a tipping point is crossed, according to new work. Much ...

Churchill is a remote Canadian town that not only lives with the predator next door, but loves it CHURCHILL, Manitoba -- Sgt.

RICHLAND, Wash. -Tip the first tile in a line of dominoes and you'll set off a chain reaction, one tile falling after another ...

A study published in the scientific journal PLOS One compared blood samples of polar bears in the Chukchi Sea from 1987 to ...