Animated map of the North Pole showing the progressive decline of the sea ice in the Arctic over the last 45 years, with ...

With the Arctic sea ice maintaining its trend of declining, average extent since the 1980s, there is another side to the story with a unique, slightly more positive statistic. The Arctic sea ice ...

This year's winter record low is 1.36 million square kilometers (525,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average, ...

Ice plays a vital role in reflecting away planet-warming sunlight. The Arctic is warming much faster than most other parts of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Iceland. Pexels The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern ...

The journey had taken him 26 feet beneath the surface, where sunlight filtered through the Arctic ice and fish swam around a ...

Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...

I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...