This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to ...

Glasgow’s first tree hugging champion is the aptly named Hannah Willow (willow meaning le saule in french). The competition took place on the outskirts of the city in Scotland and she will soon be ...

The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

Just a month after its launch, ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite has already delivered its first images, notably capturing Storm Boris, which has been wreaking havoc across central Europe. Equipped ...

Environmentalists have been broadly supportive of the administration’s recent moves on the Arctic, which also include ... it would approve the proposed Willow drilling project in Alaska.

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More than polar bears are threatened in this changing gateway to the Arctic, where warmer waters melt sea ice earlier in the year and the open ocean lingers longer. For what grows, lives and ...

The Arctic summer sea ice minimum also stayed low this year, at 4.28 million km² (1.65 million mi²), making it the 7th lowest minimum in the satellite record. So far, 2012 saw the record minimum ...

The collapse of cooperation between Russia and its Arctic peers has conveniently cemented Beijing’s position as Moscow’s first partner in the region. With China-Russia relations once lionized ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...