For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

“The Arctic is the most dangerous place on Earth,” warns Lars Saunes, former chief of the Royal Norwegian Navy, and now at ...

A team of researchers discovered various pesticides and pollutants while studying three glaciers in the Arctic Ocean. Their findings reveal how a shifting climate is making our planet vulnerable to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists continue to uncover mounting evidence that melting Arctic glaciers are changing our world forever.

As the Arctic region becomes increasingly contested, the U.S. military faces a new era of challenges in one of the world's most inhospitable environments. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied ...

The Arctic is emerging as a maritime crossroads where environmental risk, economic ambition and intensifying geopolitical competition converge.

In 2006, when the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, released the first-ever Arctic Report Card, scientists already knew the top of the world was in trouble. It’s now much ...

OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja were visiting the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Monday, at a time of increased interest in the ...

Surface temperatures in the Arctic have warmed more than twice as fast as the global average initially, but in recent decades, the Arctic has even warmed almost four times faster than the global ...

The Arctic continues to warm faster than other parts of the planet and is seeing record high temperatures and record low sea ice levels. That's according to the 2025 Arctic Report Card, which the ...

The figure shows the delta of the river Lena, one of the largest rivers in the world. The river is visible in bright yellow, as it splits and divides into many different channels before meandering ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record low in March 2025, marking the lowest extent in the 47-year satellite record. The shrinking sea ice, attributed to rising global temperatures from burning fossil fuels, ...