Because of an unstable polar vortex, experts have projected record low levels of Arctic sea ice for the coming winter.

In September 2023, a global seismic mystery began to unfold. Every 90 seconds, the Earth pulsed with a strange, low-frequency ...

New research is challenging the ongoing debate about the Arctic's glacial past, suggesting that the region may never have ...

We present a methodology to derive sea ice type classification maps in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean for the autumn through spring seasons, from 1991 to present. We use datasets from four ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has for the first time gained insights into a current in the Barents Sea ...

Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration and the Battle for Power at the Top of the World. By Kieran Mulvaney. Island Press; 240 pages; $30 and £24 Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in ...

The extent of polar ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank in the winter of 2025 to its smallest extent since measurements began in 1979.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

As sea-ice in the region continues to decline, northern sea routes across the Arctic Ocean could become economically viable for longer periods of the year.

The Arctic's winter ice extent reached its lowest recorded level in March since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 21, 2025, the sea ice cover measured 14.45 million square kilometres ...