As tensions rise to grab Arctic resources, the U.S. is racing to construct a new icebreaker vessel that can secure a foothold ...

By Elizaveta Vereykina The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET) has been monitoring sea ice for decades. The maps it ...

The initial results and observations from preliminary field experiments are inconclusive but encouraging. For example, the ...

According to an internal budget document, the Trump administration is seeking to end nearly all of NOAA's climate research.

With the Trump administration sabotaging scientific knowledge gathered over half a century, US polar scientists are urgently ...

The adventurer and author of Into the Ice recounts his harrowing attempt to sail the Northwest Passage and why he always ...

When it comes to climate change, to invoke one of Al Gore’s favorite sayings, the biggest challenge is not what we don’t know, but what we know for sure but just isn’t so. Two new studies ...

To this long list of disruptions, another lesser-known one must be added: The disappearance of sea ice changes the color of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans. This could have "considerable ...

Oct. 19, 2022 — Climate change is causing the Arctic Ocean's sea ice to melt away. When the polar ocean loses its cover of sea ice, carbon dioxide uptake increases disrupting the food web in the ...