Extreme weather in the Arctic in 2018 brought huge amounts of snow that melted slowly and resulted in the reproductive failure of the region’s plants and animals, according to a new study.
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Scientists have chosen an ice floe on which to begin setting up a research camp for a year-long international expedition to study the Arctic, Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute said Friday.
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A team of scientists from 19 countries will set off for the Arctic on Friday, aiming to freeze their ship into the polar ice for a year to research the changing climate.
Read moreOver protests from Republicans that repealing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would irreversibly damage U.S. energy independence, House Democrats passed a bill Thursday to protect the pristine coastal plains from oil and gas developers.
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Tethered between pastel-colored wooden houses in the Greenlandic village of Kulusuk and on hills nearby, the island’s famous sled dogs wait through the summer for the ice to form so their hunting season can begin.
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In waters believed to be extraordinarily abundant in natural resources, the historic deal among five nations that touch on the Arctic Ocean is considered a pre-emptive strike against overfishing as the polar ice cap disappears.
Read moreRussia on Monday said radioactive isotopes were released in a recent accident at an Arctic missile test site that caused widespread alarm as authorities kept details under wraps.
Read moreRussia launched the world’s first floating nuclear reactor, sending it on an epic journey across the Arctic on Friday, despite environmentalists warning of a “Chernobyl on ice.”
Read moreNew York University air and ocean scientist David Holland, who is tracking what’s happening in Greenland from both above and below, calls it “the end of the planet.” He is referring to geography more than the future. Yet in many ways this place is where the planet’s warmer and watery future is being written.
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Greenland is not for sale and U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of buying the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic from Denmark is “an absurd discussion,” Denmark’s prime minister said.
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Iceland on Sunday honored the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.
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Greenland is not for sale, the mineral-rich island said Friday, after a newspaper reported that U.S. President Donald Trump was asking advisers whether it’s possible for the United States to buy the Arctic island.
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Ice sheets, once thought to be frozen wastelands, play a much larger role in Earth’s carbon cycle than previously believed.
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Scientists discovered just how far reaching human pollution has become when they discovered an “enormous” amount of microplastics in the Arctic snow, according to new research released Wednesday.
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The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic.
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Canada will create a protected marine area in the country’s Arctic region, where climate change is taking effect three times faster than global average, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday.
Read moreSecretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a frosty warning to China and Russia on Monday, urging allies to be wary of the two countries’ activities in the Arctic region.
Read moreDanish researchers have now added narwhals to the list of more than 250 animal species with sequenced genomes, and their findings tell us an interesting story about the genetics of these unicorns of the sea.
Read moreScientists studying the impact of carbon released into the atmosphere by melting Arctic permafrost and heating up of the Earth’s surface reveal the potential multitrillion-dollar cost to the world economy in a new paper published Tuesday in Nature Communications.
Read moreGlobal warming trends are hard to ignore, according to NASA, especially after its researchers compared 16 years of climate data gathered by satellites with temperature measurements on Earth and found some alarming parallels.
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