As Arctic ice cap melts, a new Cold War April 16, 2012 / 8:20 AM EDT / AP (AP) YOKOSUKA, Japan - To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over.

BOULDER, Colo. — The Arctic Ocean’s pristine white ice cap, a defining feature of our planet visible even from space, could ...

With Arctic ice cap at record low this summer, a geography professor predicts serious consequences for the planet. Think of a poor hamster on a spinning wheel, caught up by momentum and unable to ...

This September, the arctic ice cap melted the most ever recorded, with only 24 percent of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice. Ray Suarez talks to Walt Meier, a scientist at the U.S. National Ice and ...

In a year when the Arctic ice cap has shrunk to the lowest level ever recorded, a new analysis from Seattle scientists says global warming will accelerate future melting much more than previously ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

The ice cap’s core of so-called multiyear ice, which persists year-round, has shrunk by about 40 percent in four decades, kicking off a vicious cycle: as more ice melts, more ocean water is ...

Sea ice covered 5.64 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean at the ice’s peak extent this year in early March. That’s almost 400,000 square miles less than the median coverage level at other ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis, reports that temperatures at the North Pole are currently fifteen degrees above normal, accelerating the melting of the Arctic ice cap. This ...

Global warming will shrink the Arctic ice cap much faster than previously expected, Seattle scientists reported today. About 40 percent of the ice that usually blankets the top of the world during ...

Former Vice President Al Gore's famously wrong prediction in 2009 about Arctic sea ice completely melting by 2013 drew a lot of ridicule when it didn’t come to pass.

The camp took its name from the USS Whale, a submarine that reached the North Pole in 1969 by diving under the Arctic ice cap and surfacing through the ice at the pole.