A senior lecturer in environmental sciences at the University of Dundee, wrote in a commentary to accompany an influential ...

Sled expeditions continue on Ellesmere Island and in the Northwest Passage, while other journeys have ended in Siberia, ...

But the shift in the Arctic has been sudden and dramatic with temperatures rising more severely than anywhere else on the globe. Global temperatures in February of last year averaged 1.2°C (2.2 ...

A new study has found that the Åsgardfonna glacier on Svalbard survived, and may even have advanced, during a warmer-than-present period on our planet thousands of years ago.

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

"This glacier used to be closer," Fagre declares ... and eastern Himalayan glaciers could virtually disappear by 2035. Arctic sea ice has thinned significantly over the past half century, and ...

The Bering Glacier is the largest and longest glacier in continental North America. The largest temperate surging glacier on Earth, it has surged at least six times during the twentieth century, most ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare Arctic plant called the Alaskan glacier buttercup under the Endangered ...

Mendenhall Glacier welcomes more than 400,000 visitors each year, and it's easy to see why: aside from its stunning arctic beauty, the glacier is only 12 miles outside Juneau and it's the only ...