The Arctic is emerging as a maritime crossroads where environmental risk, economic ambition and intensifying geopolitical ...

On a flat map, Greenland looks like a lonely white expanse at the top of the world. On the right projections, it jumps out as the hinge between North America, Europe and the Arctic Ocean, a place ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The world is expected to experience more record temperatures over the next five years, with Arctic warming predicted at more than three times the global average, a new report by the ...

Surface temperatures in the Arctic have warmed more than twice as fast as the global average initially, but in recent decades, the Arctic has even warmed almost four times faster than the global ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The snow season is dramatically shorter today, sea ice is thinning and melting earlier ...

The Arctic is changing rapidly, and scientists have uncovered a powerful mix of natural and human-driven processes fueling that change. Cracks in sea ice release heat and pollutants that form clouds ...

The correlation between Arctic wildfires and abnormal snow cover under global warming is of growing concern. A comprehensive quantitative assessment by researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic ...

As much of the United States faces numbing cold, treacherous ice and heavy snow from an enormous winter storm, President Donald Trump used social media to dispute that the world is warming. In a ...

One of the consequences of climate change is that weather events are becoming more extreme. In counterintuitive ways, like ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of ...