A research project experimenting with using glass beads to reflect sunlight away from the Arctic has been cancelled after test results suggested it was a threat to the food chain. The Arctic Ice ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...

(Andreas Preusser/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) As Arctic sea ice continues to thin and shrink, an essential feature of its ecosystem—pressure ridges—is becoming increasingly rare, saysa recent ...

Scientists say faster warming will lead to a breakdown of ecosystems, with an ice-free Arctic Ocean all summer and rising sea levels. What happens in the Arctic will affect Arizona, as shown by ...

The Arctic ecosystem, spanning Siberia, Alaska, the Nordic countries, and Canada, has been accumulating carbon for thousands of years, helping cool the Earth’s atmosphere. In a warming world ...

What would happen to the Arctic marine ecosystem if the sea ice melted even faster? To answer these questions, a long-term monitoring and data collection system is necessary in the harsh Arctic ...

While Trump did not reiterate his intent to grab Greenland, observers believe such a move remains possible and could spur increased rivalry with China and Russia in the Arctic by turning the ...

As a rapidly developing third world war engulfs the globe in flames, the Arctic and Arctic Ocean have become a major arena of conflict in the imperialist drive to re-divide the world. The ...