Arctic Canada. Polar bear on the drifting ice with snow and evening pink blue sky, Svalbard, Norway. Wild danger animals in the nature habitat, two polar bears.© Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock.com When ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record.

The polar ice caps are melting. And this has already led to an increase in the sea level. Between now and 2100, it is estimated that the sea level will rise anywhere from 1 foot up to 7 feet. But that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Knud Rasmussen Glacier, in Greenland. Muratart/Shutterstock For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably ...

It’s one of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists today: how vulnerable are the vast ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica to rising temperatures? An unfathomable amount of ice is ...

A research vessel in international Arctic waters near Russia unearthed a new development in the rapid melting of the ice caps that could have significant ramifications for the polar ecosystem. A team ...

The rate of Arctic surface warming has reached 2 to 4 times the global average—a phenomenon known as "Arctic amplification." Traditional theories suggest that snow and ice melt reduce surface albedo, ...

The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took ...

Archaeologists followed a tip from a Breheimen National Park ranger and found a 1,500-year-old stick used in reindeer hunts, photos show. Photo from Secrets of the Ice, shared by Lars Holger Pilø The ...