Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CCGS Amundsen in the Canadian High Arctic. For the first time in history, a Canadian research icebreaker entered the waters around ...

Antarctic sea ice decline in 2015 was caused by weakening ocean stratification and strong storms that mixed warm deep water ...

The sea ice is crucial to Earth’s climate because without it reflecting sunlight, more heat energy goes into the oceans. Ice ...

Despite a heatwave-heavy year that climate change experts have chalked down to climate change, scientists have found something unexpected in the Arctic. There’s been a “dramatic” slowdown in the ...

The melting of Arctic ice has been one of the most profound ripple effects from climate change, an impact often depicted with images of a lone polar bear stranded on a dwindling piece of sea ice. Now, ...

Hidden beneath the pristine white surface of Antarctica and Greenland lies an invisible crisis. While most people imagine ice melts from the top down when warmed by sun and air, the reality is far ...

The Arctic should be reaching its annual maximum levels of sea ice at this time of year, but instead it’s at record lows, ...

The journey had taken him 26 feet beneath the surface, where sunlight filtered through the Arctic ice and fish swam around a ...

Extreme melting of the Greenland ice sheet is accelerating rapidly due to climate change, with major increases in frequency ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record. Here are some key points about the planet's ice as human-induced global ...