Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated Arctic island, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades.

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar ...

Researchers discovered more than 30 dead whitebark pine trees that were entombed in ice for millennia, representing a bygone ...

What about the rest of the North?” asked McGeorge Bundy, President of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s while considering yet one more grant to help the troubled Native ...

For decades, the Arctic has steadily been losing sea ice, causing some climatologists to guess that the first month of an ice ...

Arctic sea ice is undergoing profound changes, with older, rugged ice diminishing and younger, smoother ice becoming more ...

In the Arctic, the old, multiyear ice is increasingly melting, dramatically reducing the frequency and size of pressure ridges. These ridges are created when ice floes press against each other and ...

Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a "time capsule" into the past ...

The rapid pace of melting glaciers is causing profound environmental and geopolitical changes due to shifting national ...

An innovative artificial intelligence (AI) model, capable of predicting changes in Arctic sea ice up to a year in advance, ...

Between snowy winters and holiday songs, many animals come to mind during Christmas. There are polar bears wearing Santa hats and red-nosed reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Turtle doves and the ...

While compound extreme events across the bulk of the planet are characterized by hot and dry conditions, those over polar ice ...