Widening sea routes through the Arctic’s ice fields will shorten the time it takes for European oil to reach Asia – placing South Korea in the...
An international team of scientists have attached sensors to Arctic sea ice to measure this year’s summer melt in a massive, unprecedented experiment. The study will...
Arctic birds are nesting up to seven days earlier than usual as a result of snow melting earlier because of an increasing warmer Arctic, a new...
Expected changes in Antarctic wind patterns may speed up global sea level rise, threatening coastal cities and low-lying countries around the world, a new study has...
Emperor penguins have shown to be not as attached to their nesting locations as previously thought, meaning that they could adapt much easier to their changing...
Antarctica must be better protected from tourism and other human activities, after experts noted a surge in the number of visitors travelling to “the planet’s last...
Climate change is decimating populations of tiny species that live on the seabed of the Antarctic shore, threatening ecosystem stability and life higher up the food...
The amount of water in ponds that collect on top of ice floes during periods of spring warming can help predict how much the Arctic will...
A new House of Lords committee has been established to consider the recent changes in the Arctic and assess their implications for the UK and its...
A mineral-rich Antarctic region that provides geologists with a unique window into the continent’s history has been given special protected status. The Stornes Peninsula in the...
Greenpeace activists are continuing to occupy a Statoil rig in the Barents Sea, despite some having been removed by authorities. The campaign group has said it...
The melting of the Arctic will make the region more vulnerable to alien and invasive species, because of increased shipping and transport activity, scientists have warned....
Greenpeace activists boarded two oil rigs on Tuesday in a protest against controversial plans for exploratory drilling in the Arctic. The environmental organisation is calling for...
A new radar survey has revealed that in the past three years Antarctica has lost ice at twice the rate it did between 2005 and 2010,...
The collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet is now unstoppable, guaranteeing a potentially devastating eventual sea level rise of up to 4 metres (13ft), according...