Global action will be crucial. Scientists issue warning about dangerous phenomenon escalating in the Arctic — here's what's ...

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A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant ...

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant slowdown in Arctic sea ice melting since 2012, with the decrease rate of 11.3% ...

The Arctic could increasingly become the site of animal-to-human disease transfer, a study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment suggests. As the ice melts, scientists warn, more ...

The Arctic is heating faster than any other region on Earth, and scientists now say a newly identified chain reaction in the ...

The Arctic has experienced its warmest and wettest year on record, a long-running study by the leading US atmospheric agency has found, and the rapid melt of permafrost has caused rivers to turn ...

The past 10 years have been the warmest recorded in a region that is heating at two to four times the global average.

As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.

The melting of Arctic ice has been one of the most profound ripple effects from climate change, an impact often depicted with images of a lone polar bear stranded on a dwindling piece of sea ice. Now, ...

NASA Langley researchers are heading to the Arctic Ocean to study the habitat's effect on climate worldwide. Scientists measured microplastic concentrations in the highly productive Barents Sea and ...

Every summer, some of the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean melts. Come mid-September, it begins to refreeze. Scientists began to monitor this cycle in the late 1970s, and this year, they saw less ice ...