The past water year, October 2024 through September 2025, brought the highest Arctic air temperatures since records began 125 ...

The Arctic could be "ice-free" in just a few years, scientists have found. Here's what that means. The region, which sits at the northernmost point of the globe, is a unique ecosystem characterized by ...

As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.

Snow accumulation during winter no longer compensates for summer losses. This annual balance has been negative for decades, ...

Although the Trump administration has taken steps to scuttle or downplay other reports about climate change, this one struck ...

The Arctic could be "ice-free" in the summertime as soon as the next few years, scientists said in a study Tuesday. That's the earliest date any study has suggested an ice-free Arctic could occur – as ...

The Arctic is changing rapidly, and scientists have uncovered a powerful mix of natural and human-driven processes fueling ...

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 ...

I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...

Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images Across ...

The Arctic is the "frontline" for climate change, scientists said. If there is any doubt about climate change, look no further than the coldest regions of the planet for proof that the planet is ...