The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

A coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and blankets parts of glac ...

There is a moment each year when the Arctic stops reflecting light and starts holding it. It does not announce itself. Satellites notice first. Then, researchers begin to compare notes. By late summer ...

In 2006, scientists released the first version of the Arctic Report Card, now a staple at the Fall Meeting of the American ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with risks of its own.

Amid rising Arctic tensions between the United States and Denmark, OACM proposes Greenland as the Arctic’s first Certified SAFE Marine Area, using Ocean Unity and Environmental Diplomacy to bridge ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

A coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and blankets parts of glac ...