Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, but not enough to offset an even greater acceleration caused by changes in ...

The following is the July 2, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for ...

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute traveled to the Arctic Sea to study the effects of climate change, and they say ...

Contained in the new federal spending law formerly known as the "Big Beautiful Bill" is funding for 17 icebreakers, 21 ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

Sediments in a lagoon near Darwin hold traces of changes to monsoonal rains over 150,000 years. Here’s what it means as Earth ...

In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is exacerbated by climate change. When most Americans think about climate change, ...

New research is challenging the ongoing debate about the Arctic's glacial past, suggesting that the region may never have ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...