Investors across the UK are being urged to call for oil giant Shell to abandon its plans to drill for fossil fuels in the Arctic Ocean....
The rapidly melting Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica may be the biggest contributor to rising sea levels over the next few decades, a new study...
A new study has suggested that Arctic ice reflects less sun heat back into the atmosphere because of an increase in melted sea ice and that...
Arctic nations are not sufficiently prepared for a major shipwreck in the region, a new study has warned. Marc Jacobsen, a Danish member of the Arctic...
A pioneering project that will attempt to improve understanding of current and future changes in the Arctic environment has been launched after an inaugural meeting in...
A British explorer and a former French rugby player have completed the ill-fated Antarctic journey of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, over 100 years after it was...
The shallow icy lakes of Alaska’s Arctic plains are melting earlier than usual each year, a new study has found. It suggests that land ice is...
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced it will suspend its controversial plans for Arctic drilling after witnessing a 39% annual net profits slump, in what...
Shell was wrongly awarded offshore oil leases in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska in 2008, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision means that the...
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has unveiled a new book that analyses the economic and military opportunities in the Arctic, as global warming brings...
Shell’s new boss Ben van Beurden has issued a shock profit warning, saying that the oil giant’s fourth quarter figures were expected to be “significantly lower...
On this day 102 years ago, Sir Robert Falcon Scott and the Terra Nova expedition arrived at the South Pole. Having finished behind Roald Amundsen in...
The largest glacier in Antarctica, which split up into a giant iceberg in July, is likely to continue its retreat, according to experts who say it...
The US navy is to publish a new strategy in the coming weeks detailing how it plans to address the increase in commercial shipping traffic, oil...
The leader of an Antarctic expedition whose ship became stranded and had to be rescued has expressed his frustration over the “misrepresentation of the expedition”, after...