For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists continue to uncover mounting evidence that melting Arctic glaciers are changing our world forever.

A team of researchers discovered various pesticides and pollutants while studying three glaciers in the Arctic Ocean. Their findings reveal how a shifting climate is making our planet vulnerable to ...

As the Arctic region becomes increasingly contested, the U.S. military faces a new era of challenges in one of the world's most inhospitable environments. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied ...

Under the Arctic sea ice, fish and plankton live in complete darkness, even in midsummer. Ice floes stop the sun's rays, ...

Surface temperatures in the Arctic have warmed more than twice as fast as the global average initially, but in recent decades, the Arctic has even warmed almost four times faster than the global ...

In 2006, when the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, released the first-ever Arctic Report Card, scientists already knew the top of the world was in trouble. It’s now much ...

The figure shows the delta of the river Lena, one of the largest rivers in the world. The river is visible in bright yellow, as it splits and divides into many different channels before meandering ...

Donald Trump and his senior officials insist that Greenland must become part of the US. This is for national security purposes, they say, maintaining that Denmark, of which Greenland is a constituent ...

Geopolitical rivalries are reshaping the Arctic as a region of strategic competition. Western readiness to compete in the region is consistently called into question, especially considering the ...

The IEA report finds that fixed-tilt trackers could be effective in Arctic environments due to their ‘simplicity and reliability in freeze-thaw cycles’. Image: Sungrow. Fixed-tilt trackers and ...