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 ...

President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard ...

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 ...

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 ...