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, ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

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

British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

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 ...

This week's unseasonal mini-heatwave could be followed by a return to cold and wintry conditions across the UK, new weather maps suggest. Parts of Britain are expected to reach 28C on Wednesday ...

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 ...