“The Arctic is the most dangerous place on Earth,” warns Lars Saunes, former chief of the Royal Norwegian Navy, and now at ...

Scientists are using studies and computer models to draw connections between recent extreme weather and climate change. The ...

As a paleoclimatologist, Balascio studies how Earth’s climate system has changed across millennia, primarily through ...

Earth’s oceans absorbed another record volume of heat in 2025, reinforcing a pattern that climate scientists say is accelerating ice loss in the Arctic and storing energy that will shape weather ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable.

By Sean Mowbray International shipping is on the rise in the Arctic region now that climate change regularly opens up transpolar sea routes in summer. That surge in traffic is leading to higher ...

Climate change is having a profound impact on the Arctic. We know that the region is warming significantly faster than the ...

Zach Zimmerman argues the biggest threats to Canada's Arctic aren't of the conventional military variety, but rather climate ...

Scientists are investigating how rising temperatures at the North Pole may be disrupting the polar vortex, allowing arctic ...

New research finds that Arctic peatlands are expanding as the far north undergoes rapid changes. It's an ominous sign.

Arctic sea ice has large effects on the global climate. By cooling the planet, Arctic ice impacts ocean circulation, atmospheric patterns, and extreme weather conditions, even outside the Arctic ...