Shocking satellite images show how the Norwegian archipelago has, according to NASA Earth Observatory (NEO), "suffered extreme episodes of melting in summer 2024". In late July and early August ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

James Overland, Oceanographer In early March, after shoveling away three feet of snow, scientists from the Lance melt a hole through the ice to collect plankton and water samples. Most Arctic ...

In special coverage, National Geographic explores the consequences of the Arctic warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet. I also won’t forget the ship’s captain, Leif Skog ...

Rising temperatures are thought to reduce the number of ice crystals in clouds, leading to the formation of liquid-dominated clouds. However, a new study has found that Arctic warming is causing ...

With the melt, algae is threatened and the food chain begins to collapse. Seasonal sea ice, which melts and reforms each year, now makes up over 70 per cent of Arctic sea ice. However, with each ...

Polar ice caps are melting as global warming causes climate change. We lose Arctic sea ice at a rate of almost 13% per decade, and over the past 30 years, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has ...

The Cold War spawned some odd military projects that were doomed to fail, from atomic subways to a city under the ice.

The polar ice caps are melting due to climate change caused by global warming. We are losing Arctic sea ice at a rate of nearly 13% per decade, and the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has ...

In late July and early August 2024, temperatures hovered around 4 degrees Celsius above average for this part of the Arctic Circle. The heat took its toll on Svalbard, home to some of Earth’s ...

This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on August 9.(EU/Copernicus Sentinel-2 via SWNS) By Dean Murray via SWNS Svalbard's ice caps are melting faster than ever before ...