If Earth stays at its current levels of warming -- below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius -- polar ice sheets may ...

The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth, but in recent decades, the region has been rapidly warming, at a rate three to four times faster than the global average. However, current climate ...

The largest iceberg in the world has split off into thousands of smaller chunks after colliding with an Antarctic island. The A23a iceberg, which NASA had deemed the largest in the world since 2023, ...

What is the cost of inaction?” asked Cían Sherwin, founder of Real Ice, encapsulating the feeling of urgency that drives ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

That's why an international project led by NAU researchers, which has resulted in the first high-resolution maps of plant biomass and woody plant dominance in the Arctic, is so important.

An Arctic "fogbow” is seen from the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Healy during the 2016 Hidden Ocean mission to the Chukchi Borderland. (photo provided by Caitlin Bailey/Global Foundation for ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during May 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide. Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron ...

but how they infiltrate critical ocean systems. For the study, researchers synthesized depth-profile data from 1,885 stations collected between 2014 and 2024 to map microplastic distribution ...

Scientists say changes due to our warming world are being detected in another major ocean current located in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, which could cause a series of events that would allow an ...

Use a map-based interface to spatially compare sea ice extent for any two days or months between 1979 and present. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ...

Antarctic Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean. Before the year 2000, only four oceans were recognized officially by the International Hydrographic Organization, but the entity added the Antarctic Ocean (also ...