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 ...

Sea ice in the Arctic appears to have hit its annual maximum extent after growing through the fall and winter. The 2021 wintertime extent reached on March 21 ties with 2007’s as the seventh-smallest ...

The coming freeze this weekend may send those who weathered 2021’s Winter Storm Uri and 2023’s Winter Storm Elliot running to the store to stock up on toilet paper for what feels like the inevitable ...

The US and Canada want more icebreakers to counter Russia and China in the Arctic, as the polar region — and competition for ...

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

As the world’s attention shifts to Alaska for the critical summit on Ukraine between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it also shines a light on an area that is crucial to global security, writes world ...

This 2018 satellite photo of ice caps on the Arctic islands of Russia's Severnaya Zemlya archipelago highlights the beautiful concentric rings of color in the ice, which stand out against the islands' ...

When the Biden administration nominated Michael Sfraga to be special ambassador to the Arctic, he failed to disclose his deep history with Russia and China. The Senate is expected to vote on Sfraga’s ...

U.S. and Norwegian special operations forces test ice thickness to establish a landing zone for a helicopter during an Arctic training exercise. (MCC Jeff Atherton/U.S. Navy) This article is ...

That winter event left many in Texas with a degree of post-traumatic stress disorder about all freezing weather since then, but to help put minds at ease about next week, let’s start with some weather ...