Snow accumulation during winter no longer compensates for summer losses. This annual balance has been negative for decades, ...

The Arctic is melting rapidly, losing 12% of its ice per decade. Scientists warn the first ice-free day could occur by 2027, ...

The melting of Arctic ice has been one of the most profound ripple effects from climate change, an impact often depicted with images of a lone polar bear stranded on a dwindling piece of sea ice. Now, ...

The Arctic has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, a new report shows, as temperatures skyrocket and ice rapidly melts ...

The Arctic Ocean is often described as remote, frozen, and far away from daily life. But new scientific findings show that ...

As part of the EU project ECOTIP, an international team of researchers, including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, has analyzed the sea off Greenland more comprehensively than ever before. The key ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

Greenland and Iceland experienced a record heat wave in May. Experts are concerned and have warned about the impacts of this rare weather event on the rest of the world. As The Washington Post ...

Although the Trump administration has taken steps to scuttle or downplay other reports about climate change, this one struck ...