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Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.
While global temperatures are rising, climate change is paradoxically causing harsher and colder winters in many regions.
For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...
For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...
President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard ...
Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet – sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and food webs – has been in the news a lot lately. All of these threats were ...
In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...
A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...
Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...
The United States must build a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers to counter Russia and China’s advantage in the Arctic.
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