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

Could it herald an era of more cargo shipping around the top of the world? Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean as a ...

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

I had expected that walrus may be hard to find, but I did not expect it to be hard to find ice in the Arctic. The Arctic ... shots showing the walrus on top and the “iceberg” below.

The Arctic is the earth's air conditioner. Disruptions at the top of the world could reverberate elsewhere. While the ...

Some parts of the Arctic don't look very polar anymore ... But in places like southwest Alaska, that means rain falling on top of snow, then freezing. That's what happened in Fairbanks in December ...