Scientists in Svalbard were shocked to find rain and greenery instead of snow during Arctic winter fieldwork. The event ...

Arctic winters - once considered the most stable and predictable part of the region’s climate - are becoming warm, wet, and unstable.

A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr. James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages. Now, a new study published in Science Advances challenges this idea ...

Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer, then refreezes each winter. The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

As Arctic ice vanishes, many scientists expect the steady stream of air that pushes weather across the Northern Hemisphere to wobble, producing periods of punishing cold, ...

Specifically, the study projects that the Arctic Ocean could become ice-free for the first time on a late August or early September day in the 2020s to the 2030s under all future emissions scenarios.

Wildfires in Canada have been releasing plumes of black carbon. Scientist issues urgent warning about overlooked side effect ...

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as ...

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.

The Arctic is experiencing a vast melting of sea ice. But something is happening under the ice that scientists don’t fully understand.