Sea ice in the Arctic appears to have hit its annual minimum extent on Sept. 16, after waning in the 2021 Northern Hemisphere spring and summer. The summertime extent is the 12th-lowest in the ...

For years, the rapid rate of Arctic sea ice loss has concerned climate researchers all around the globe. But as the latest ...

Some proposals for climate cooling would require unprecedented levels of global cooperation and feats of engineering, says ...

Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets are gaining popularity as the planet heats up. But none of the most ...

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...

The Polarstern recently ended a two-month expedition in the central Arctic in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The international and ...

If you pull an ice core from the outer edges of the Arctic polar cap, you might spot what looks like a faint line of dirt.