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

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than expected.

As polar ice melts, water moves from the poles toward the equator — making our Earth bulkier and rotate slower.

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

As the ice melts, the barriers that once kept conflict at bay are also dissolving. What rises in their place is a new geopolitical frontier, where commercial ambition, climate transformation, and ...

Refreezing the melting sea ice in the Arctic is more complicated than you would think. The U.K. is funding geoengineering experiments like this one to curb the effects of climate change.

Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

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

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

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

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, ...

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than expected.