The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like oil and coal, a bunch of greenhouse gases go ...

The U.S. government should emphasize the importance of polar diplomacy amid continuing territorial disputes among Arctic ...

Today, global warming and dramatic melting of polar ice urgently underscore the vital importance of the region.

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 ...

What about the rest of the North?” asked McGeorge Bundy, President of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s while considering yet one more grant to help the troubled Native ...

Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated Arctic island, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades.

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

President Trump has recently expressed a desire to expand American territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even ...

The biggest glacier in the Northern Hemisphere is also one of the coolest places to peek into Alaska's ancient geological ...

Florida State University researchers are part of the first global study on glacial organic carbon and have found that just ...

UVA architecture students get hands-on experience addressing the effects of melting snow in Alaska’s northernmost town.