Greenlanders celebrated National Day, the Arctic island’s biggest summer festival, on Saturday to mark the solstice with ...

For a unique and educational experience in Fairbanks, the Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station (LARS) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks offers visitors an up-close look at Arctic ...

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Ice loss in the Arctic has long been a sign of climate change, but most of us imagine that an Arctic entirely free of ice is still a long way off. Not so.

Scientists have warned that the Arctic could witness its first ice-free day in just three years in 2027, as per a new study published in the journal, Nature Communications.Climatologists from ...

The Arctic Ocean could see an ice-free day as early as 2027, according to a study conducted by a team of researchers who used computer models to predict the ominous milestone ...

The Arctic is likely to become “ice-free” by midcentury—and could pass that grim milestone much sooner—unless much more is done to combat climate change. Skip to main content.

Instead, the first ice-free day was the start of an ice-free period lasting between 11 and 53 days. That symbolic value may not have much effect, we’ve seen similar markers be largely ignored.

Arctic animals are exposed to more diseases It’s been harder for Rode, a polar bear researcher for nearly two decades, to do her job in recent years. Every spring, she and her team would sample ...

To date, Tape’s team has primarily studied the geophysical impacts of beavers, not the ecological ones. That’s changing. The group is collecting water samples to analyze for genetic traces of fish, ...

Arctic's First Ice-Free Summer Day May Occur Within A Decade, Study Finds In this study, published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, the research team from the University of ...