Arctic sea ice is melting at an accelerated rate, leading to a warmer ocean that absorbs more sunlight. This loss of ice ...

The past water year, October 2024 through September 2025, brought the highest Arctic air temperatures since records began 125 ...

As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...

This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of ...

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea ...

The past 10 years have been the warmest recorded in a region that is heating at two to four times the global average.

Arctic communities have long been noticing changes in the sea ice across Alaska, with ice setting up later most years and proving less dependable throughout the winter many years. The impacts have ...

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

The Arctic is transforming faster and with more far-reaching consequences than scientists expected just 20 years ago, when the first Arctic Report Card assessed the state of Earth’s far northern ...