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

There can no longer be any talk of "eternal" ice in the Arctic, as the ice in the Arctic Ocean is melting inexorably. Climate change is making the ...

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

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.

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame?

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.