What did the Arctic look like in the distant past? The answer carries significant implications for understanding how it will ...

Under the influence of global warming, the Arctic is transitioning from a state dominated by multi-year thick ice to a "New ...

A research team has found that summer rainfall in the Arctic would increase by about 17% under 2°C global warming, ...

Melting polar ice is unleashing stronger, faster currents, reshaping heat flow, nutrient pathways, and microplastic movement ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked out onto ...