Malte Humpert, the founder of The Arctic Institute think-tank, is among them. He says the passage is a "less clear cut" option for shipping than the Northern Sea Route, which runs along the ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur Chilingarov, the bearded polar explorer and anointed Hero of the Russian Federation, is at the end of ...

Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the rate of ice loss across the region.

As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

“The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet,” says Heinerth. “And it’s really evident here.” Sea ice is dynamic. It expands and contracts, melts and freezes; it’s ...

The sun had yet to rise over Iceland as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown boarded a Navy submarine-hunting ...

It is also conceptual. Just as the words “Indo-Pacific” or the “South China Sea” connote strategic concepts, so too the “Arctic” takes on renewed strategic meaning. The Arctic is ...

Oct. 25, 2024 — The Arctic is warming at three to four times ... Creating a Spatial Map of the Sea: New Research Visualizes How Fishing Communities Can Change Fishing Habits to Adapt to Climate ...

However, this is likely just an illusion caused by the ice below. On average, Arctic sea ice melt ponds are only around 9 inches (22 centimeters) deep, according to a 2022 study. However ...

“Our finding that enhanced melting of Arctic sea-ice likely resulted in significant cooling in northern Europe in the earth’s past is alarming,” says Mohamed Ezat from the iC3 Polar Research ...