"Until now, it was believed that nitrogen fixation could not take place under the sea ice because it was assumed that the ...

TORONTO A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the ...

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This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the ...

Breaking Down Arctic Amplification Surface temperatures in the Arctic have warmed more than twice as fast as the global ...

U.S. and Norwegian special operations forces test ice thickness to establish a landing zone for a helicopter during an Arctic training exercise. (MCC Jeff Atherton/U.S. Navy) This article is ...

In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a result of human-caused global warming. At that time, most of Antarctica’s ...

OTTAWA, April 17 (Reuters) - British explorers walking to to the North Pole on a mission to gauge how fast Arctic ice sheets are melting say they are surprised by how little permanent ice they have ...