As melting sea ice reveals new trade routes, resources and battlegrounds, the Kola Bay is emerging as one of Russia’s most ...

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

New research reveals Antarctic sea ice has hit record lows three times since 2017, creating cascading effects on global ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Arctic sea ice, not a thick ice shelf like what we observe in Antarctic today (above), shaped the far north for 750,000 years. Photo credit: Matthias Forwick.

As Arctic sea ice melts, Russia is racing to control new trade routes, extract untapped resources, and cement its military ...

Indeed, the gradual yet relentless melting of the polar ice cap is likely to open up new sea routes across the Arctic Ocean, ...

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 ...

Vast, high and more than 600 metres thick, the ice cap sits astride Axel Heiberg Island in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago.

But the ice is melting…fast. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling to the Arctic Circle to understand the ...