Sea ice is sticking to Alaska’s northern coast for less time each year, according to 27 years of data analyzed by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists.  Such landfast ice, which stays attached to ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of US data showed Wednesday, as ...

Something alarming is happening at the top of the world. Polar bears, long regarded as the living symbol of a warming planet, ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on ...

Arctic sea ice has reached one of its lowest levels on record, with experts linking the decline to rising global temperatures ...

Earth’s oceans absorbed another record volume of heat in 2025, reinforcing a pattern that climate scientists say is accelerating ice loss in the Arctic and storing energy that will shape weather ...

Not all polar bear populations are declining as a result of sea ice loss, according to new research. Polar bears that live along the Barents Sea near Svalbard -- the archipelago between Norway and the ...

The retreat of ice in the Barents Sea could be strengthening a key ocean current that regulates global climate.

Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and healthier since the early 1990s, all while sea ice has steadily declined due to ...

Arctic rivers wind through remote tundra and boreal forests, freezing solid in winter and surging each spring with snowmelt, ...

The Arctic is not a distant, frozen frontier; it’s the thinning ice sheet revealing cracks in our global climate system ...