Arctic melting foreshadows America's climate future 45:20. The Arctic could be "ice-free" in just a few years, scientists have found. Here's what that means.

The authors project that the Arctic may be sea-ice-free in September by 2030–2050 under all emission scenarios. This contrasts with previous assessments discussed in the sixth assessment report ...

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as ...

Polar bears increasingly under threat as glaciers melt faster than ever 02:15. Churchill, Canada — On the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws ...

The Arctic is the early warning system for climate change and the loss of sea ice is a clear sign it’s in trouble, scientists say. It should be reaching its annual maximum levels of ice at this ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a February morning in far northern Canada. It was –26 degrees Celsius as we ...

Even in a best-case scenario, the Arctic will begin to experience summer months with no sea ice sometime around the middle of the century — sooner than leading climate scientists had predicte… ...

Winter sea ice in the Arctic just hit a record low. Just 5.53 million square miles of ice had formed as of March 22, the smallest maximum extent since satellite recordkeeping began in the 1970s.

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ice ages. Now, a new study published in Science Advances challenges this ...

The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear sign the climate crisis is happening faster than expected as the world continues to ...