This quick flushing of the LIA through islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago is only possible when reaching continuous ice-free conditions over the central Arctic Ocean, the researchers said.

But that didn’t turn out to be the case. Arctic Today explains that the “ghost islands” are most likely to be icebergs in disguise that were once broken off from a glacier, somewhere in the ...

A set of spectacular Arctic islands home to around 2,000 people experience up to 123 days of darkness every year. Once it reaches October, the islanders of Svalbard — a Norwegian archipelago ...

Glacier loss in the Arctic in the period from 2015 to 2019 was more than in any other five-year period on record, a United Nations report on global warming said Russia's navy said on Tuesday it ...

Sayenko said to this that the melting of ice in the Arctic was proceeding at a fast enough pace at present and therefore there was a prospect of discovering more new islands. Earlier, US Secretary ...