The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the global average, primarily due to melting ice, which accelerates warming by exposing dark ocean water. Thawing permafrost releases greenhouse ...

The battle for control of the Arctic Circle is, er, heating up. The Associated Press reported that Nome, Alaska will be the site of America's first deepwater Arctic port — a $600 million ...

Unfreezing mercury. The Arctic is covered in permafrost, a large icy expanse that, as the name suggests, remains permanently frozen. Well, that was the case until recently.

DENVER (CN) — The Ninth Circuit on Friday affirmed a lower court’s order blocking the state of Alaska’s efforts to delist ringed seals under the Endangered Species Act. “National Marine Fisheries ...

The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear sign the climate crisis is happening faster than expected as the world continues to ...

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 ...

Arctic sea ice is shrinking as humans continue to heat up the world by burning fossil fuels. Since the mid-1980s, the amount of thick, multi-year ice has shrunk by 95%.

During World War II, the U.S. got a taste of what a war in the Arctic could look like. In the Battle of Attu, the Japanese army took the Aleutian island of Attu in Alaska and the 7th Infantry ...

Melting Arctic ice will have catastrophic effects on the world, experts say. Here's how. The Arctic is the "frontline" for climate change, scientists said.