The race has intensified as the sea ice has been declining. It's one of the harshest environments on Earth. But the Arctic is also of growing strategic importance - where the U.S. is in a race with ...

The Artur Chilingarov Ice Base will be located on an ice floe and house researchers and tourists who are ready to pay a ...

The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the ...

Arctic sea ice hit its 2025 summer minimum without setting a record low on Sept. 10, despite a historically low winter maximum earlier in the year. Scientists say sea ice loss has slowed over the past ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

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 ...

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled algae glide through frozen channels at record-breaking subzero temperatures, ...

The Arctic is the "frontline" for climate change, scientists said. If there is any doubt about climate change, look no further than the coldest regions of the planet for proof that the planet is ...