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 ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently vanished after "completely melting" away.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In fact, it was actually sent to the bottom of the sea on purpose ... Water temperatures here, near the Arctic Circle, regularly approach zero degrees centigrade. In order to make sure that ...

Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet ...

The shrinking sea-ice in the Arctic is not only a sign of climate change, it is causing the planet to warm more quickly. This is because more sunlight is being absorbed by the darker ocean ...

For the second year in a row, Arctic Wolf jumps more than ten spots on the Cloud 100 list, prompted by rising numbers of cyberattacks. Since its founding in 2012, the Minnesota-based cybersecurity ...