Babb noted that changes in the High Arctic will ripple south to areas with larger fishing operations as well. The loss of sea ...

As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

Researchers are warning that Arctic Ocean sea ice is melting at an even faster pace than previously thought — and the region could experience its first ice-free conditions sometime before the 2030s.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that an American attack on Greenland would effectively end NATO and the ...

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with life.

September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum, when sea ice over the Northern Hemisphere ocean reaches its lowest extent of the year. For ship captains ...

In the Arctic, there’s a chance that sea ice could disappear in the summer as soon as the 2030s. Already, since the U.S. government started measuring sea ice in 1979, more than 2 million kilometers of ...

The oldest floating ice in the Arctic appears in red on these maps comparing ice levels in 1985 and this year, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Arctic ...

Arctic sea ice, which is frozen sea water that floats on top of the ocean's surface, grows and melts during the year. Like ice sheets and glaciers, Arctic sea ice is disappearing because of climate ...

Alek Petty receives funding from NASA. Linette Boisvert receives funding from NASA. September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum, when sea ice over the ...