A new website has been launched to show what the future might look like once the ice caps have melted. World Under Water is similar to...
A part of remote East Antarctica, previously thought to be largely immune to warming, may be susceptible to climate change with a potentially devastating impact on...
The British government has announced that it will invest £200m in one of the most advanced polar research vessels ever made to support scientists in both...
As a warming climate opens up new waters to shipping and fossil fuel exploitation, researchers have warned that the US is completely unprepared to deal with...
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The benefits of an Arctic region that stays greener for longer because of warming temperatures are not sufficient to offset the carbon released by the thawing...
The last remaining ‘stable’ corner of the Greenland ice sheet is stable no more, with a potentially devastating impact on global sea levels, scientists have found....
The UK government needs to get with the programme over the protection of the Arctic, campaigners have said. This follows the European parliament’s vote in favour...
The Arctic’s ice-free season is becoming longer by an average of five days every 10 years, scientists have said. According to a new study published in...
The impacts of climate change are being felt at even the deepest depths of the Antarctic ocean, a new study has found, in a discovery that...
The recently observed increase in summer sea-ice cover in Antarctica’s Ross Sea is likely to be short-lived, according to the findings of a new study that...
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...
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...
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...