Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth melts. It might sound like a scenario for a science fiction movie, but the ...

The Arctic Ocean’s pristine white ice cap, a defining feature of our planet ... the ice extent typically fell below current ...

Unfortunately for the Arctic, but fortunately for the mission, this year is far from normal. The enduring mystery of our first week is the location of the ice cap. Our resident ice scientist ...

Maksagak has been instrumental in helping Real Ice to consult with the local community about their research, and she is ...

Illustrated with the author’s own photographs, this “hair-raising” book charts a 4,300-mile trip across the polar ice cap in a helicopter with a maximum range of only 300 miles.

But zealots push hysteria. In 2009, Al Gore, while collecting a Nobel Prize, said there was “a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap . . . during some of the summer months, could be ...

Volunteers from New Zealand to the United States are helping scientists document what will happen to coastal communities as climate change melts the polar ice caps and sea levels rise.

YOKOHAMA--Japan’s first Arctic research vessel ... functions from the current oceanographic research vessel, Mirai, which was limited to operating in ice-free areas. At 128 meters from bow ...

“People don’t understand the Arctic,” says Stephanie Pfirman, an oceanographer at Barnard College and Columbia University. “They think of it as an ice cap. They think that it’s rigid and ...

But zealots push hysteria. In 2009, Al Gore, while collecting a Nobel prize, said there was "a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap ... during some of the summer months, could be ...

According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free during the summer from 2030 onwards regardless of the level of greenhouse gas emissions.