Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

Huge shells of frozen carbon dioxide at Mars' south polar cap resulted in subsurface meltwater, which fed a huge system of ...

As glaciers retreat, the Arctic is rapidly evolving into a major global trade route, with ship traffic increasing by 37 ...

The icebreakers will be designed to navigate harsh Arctic conditions, facilitating year-round navigation through the Northern ...

On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ...

A small Arctic research station in Norway has emerged as a scientific hub, and it’s home to an increasingly female-led ...

These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

“The ice walls are gone,” Åslund says, illustrating how swiftly our planet is changing. The Arctic, warming twice as fast as ...

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