Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

“Our finding that enhanced melting of Arctic sea-ice likely resulted in significant cooling in northern Europe in the earth’s past is alarming,” says Mohamed Ezat from the iC3 Polar Research ...

The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

He’s an oceanographer for the Norwegian Polar Institute, and he was stationed on a research icebreaker during a month of work in the Arctic, taking samples of ocean water and ice cores ...

Similar melt ponds are becoming more common across the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the rate at which the region is losing its ice. The striking melt pond, which is ...

In the depths of a Nunavut winter, parka-clad scientists are drilling holes in the ice near Cambridge Bay, looking for seawater. It might sound like a peculiar thing to do in the Arctic Ocean ...

Around mid-month, the Antarctic winter sea ice approaches its highest extent, while the Arctic summer thaw melts the region’s ...

More than 100,000 years ago, global temperatures soared and the Arctic ice melted to plunge Europe into a deep freeze, a new study has indicated. The research, from the iC3 Polar Research Hub ...

After the last ice age, sea levels rose and covered the ancient permafrost on the Arctic shelf. The base of this body of ancient permafrost is slowly warming and thawing because of heat flowing ...