For further information, please see our April Arctic sea ice extent averaged 13.91 million square kilometers (5.37 million ...

Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly ...

Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers and other ...

The U.S. has never ratified the treaty under which the commission operates, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the ...

Here are answers to three questions about the High Arctic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an arm of the Interior Department that manages offshore energy in federal waters, released a map of ...

Glaciers and sea ice are declining, impacting marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, tourism and Arctic livelihoods.

The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the ...

Greenland lies across the most direct routes from Russia to the populous east coast of the US, and is the closest territory ...

On the sidelines of the Arctic Circle India Forum held on May 3-4 in New Delhi, Firstpost spoke to Rajya Sabha Member of ...

As global warming melts more sea ice in the polar regions, the light that enters the ocean is not just increasing in ...

Though phytoplankton may grow more in warmer waters, stratification limits nutrients, reducing the fjords' long-term carbon ...