On September 11, 2015, Arctic sea ice extent dropped to 4.41 million square kilometers (1.70 million square miles), the fourth lowest minimum in the satellite record....
The loss of Arctic sea ice has caused around 35,000 walruses to come ashore on a beach in Alaska, with the US forced to reroute flights...
Scientists have found that the maximum extent of sea ice in the Arctic is lowering, with the melting season lasting five more days and the rate...
Melting ice sheets and glaciers could add up to 36.8cm to sea levels by the year 2100, scientists have warned. A group of experts from 24...
A proposal by Russia and the US to protect polar bears in Canada was rejected at an international conference on endangered species held this week in...
The Arctic is found to have surpassed a number of records in 2012, including for sea ice loss, snow cover and Greenland ice sheet melting, according...
The scale of Hurricane Sandy is unprecedented, with much of America’s east coast affected in some capacity. But is its devastation a sign of things to...
Arctic summer ice cover reaches its lowest extent since records began. Antarctic land ice is being lost and those losses are accelerating. Forest cover has fallen...
The melting Arctic sea ice was once again at the centre of many a story in September, as more data revealed worrying trends of its existence....
The effects of climate change on the global economy and human population are already worryingly apparent, according to a new report which claims over $1.2 trillion...
In the wake of the environmental audit committee’s Protecting the Arctic report, which called for more safety measures and higher safety standards to prevent oil spills,...
Ice in the Arctic Sea has continued melting, dropping below 4 million square kilometres less than a fortnight after reaching its lowest ever point since records began in...