Harvard Kennedy School Professor John Holdren and Arctic Initiative director Jennifer Spence say multiple new threats are ...

For bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the world at large, causing ice to shrink by an area the size of ...

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can ...

The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From beaver ...

The Arctic has long filled humans with awe, but there are now profoundly worrying signals coming from the frozen landscape at the top of our planet, and scientists are deeply concerned about its ...

The extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week, an ominous signal about the effects of climate change in the world’s ...

The Arctic experienced record high temperatures this winter as warming accelerated again and is now running seven times faster in the North Barents Sea than the rest of the world, researchers have ...

British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

While most projections of the Arctic’s sea ice have focused on month-by-month conditions, a new study has revealed possible predictions down to the day. Previous expectations had the Arctic Sea ...

The first summer on record in which practically all of the sea ice in the Arctic melts could occur much earlier than previously expected. In a new study, scientists warn that the ever-increasing ...

The Arctic is heating up, both because of climate change and tricky global politics. That's partly why the U.S. appointed its first ambassador-at-large to oversee Arctic affairs. Mike Sfraga was ...

That includes humpbacks gaining new ground up north, bowheads expanding their diet and salmon observed in the Arctic. Salmon are spawning in the Arctic Elizabeth Mik'aq Lindley is a graduate ...