Adding to the dire predictions about global warming that have come out recently, other studies focusing on the ice sheets of both poles reveal that the rate of melt has accelerated...

Charlie Evalik (nunatsiaqonline.ca) An Inuit group from Canada's Nunavut territory comes to Wall Street today to pitch investors for financing for start-up mining and exploration p...

Sea ice’s reckoning has come: As predicted a couple of weeks ago , the level of ice in the Arctic Ocean has dropped to its lowest level...

The covering of ice over the Arctic has dropped to lows not seen since a record-breaking 2007, the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported on August 27...

The long-predicted latest break in Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has finally come to pass, with an ice chunk the size of two Manhattan Islands shearing off into the ocean on Monday...

Actress Lucy Lawless, arrested in February after she jumped aboard the drilling ship Noble Discoverer with Greenpeace activists, has pleaded guilty to trespassing and could spend u...

The United States space agency NASA has turned its gaze inward—under the Arctic Ocean, to be exact—and discovered a veritable rainforest of phytoplankton bloom beneath the ice...

The Queen Elizabeth Islands boast the highest point in what used to be the British Empire, Mount Barbeau...

A new study released at this week’s International Polar Year Conference finds the energy dynamics of the Arctic Ocean changing drastically, and in ways not foreseen by previous cli...

Polar bears, thought to be at least 150,000 years old as a species, have ancestry going back at least four times that long, a recent study has revealed...