Researchers working on the edge of a glacier in the remote Canadian Arctic have found a 54-year-old message in a bottle, long hidden inside a formation...
Scientists have discovered a huge reservoir of liquid water hidden beneath the Greenland ice sheet, which could help them more accurately predict the effects of climate...
Greenpeace has vowed to return to the Arctic and step up its efforts to prevent oil companies exploiting the region, despite the drawn-out detention of the...
US environmentalist Bill McKibben has argued that the Obama administration has continued to promote the extraction of polluting fossil fuels – the majority of which need...
The 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists, held by Russian authorities since a protest at an Arctic oil rig in September, are to be set freed,...
The Cryosat spacecraft has acquired data to suggest there was around 9,000 cubic km of sea ice in the Arctic region at the end of the...
Climate change may be causing the North Pole to drift, scientists have claimed. Computer simulations have suggested that as glaciers and ice sheets melt, the distribution...
Extreme summer weather conditions such as heatwaves and downpours in Europe and the US may be linked to record declines in Arctic sea ice, according to...
A number of famous figures, including designer Vivienne Westwood, fine artists the Chapman brothers and musician Jarvis Cocker, have designed environmentally-themed Christmas cards for a new...
The threat of abrupt climate change disasters, such as the poles melting or mass extinctions, is serious enough to warrant the development of an early warning...
The risk posed to the global climate by escaping reserves of methane from under melting Arctic ice may be bigger than originally thought, according to a...
New research published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Metrological Society has explained that the global warming ‘pause’ is a result of gaps in the...
The devastation in the Philippines reminds us of our responsibility to stop profiting from the wreckage caused by companies whose business plan includes destroying the planet,...
Global warming has finally reached one of the last untouched refuges of the Arctic region, according to new findings. Researchers from Ontario universities say that the...
Authorities in Russia are to bring more charges against many of the Greenpeace activists currently being detained in the country. The 28 protesters and two journalists...