As Arctic sea ice continues to thin and shrink, an essential feature of its ecosystem—pressure ridges—is becoming ...

The ice extent in January was down 498,000 square miles compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. That means the Arctic is now ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

Swimming in the Arctic Ocean had been on my bucket list for years, and I finally got the chance to make it happen.

It has been 11,000 days since Oct. 25, 1994. That’s when Ned Rozell wrote his first story, a Halloween-themed piece on little ...

Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into ...

The Arctic’s “Last Ice Area” (LIA), a critical habitat for animals that depend on sea ice, could vanish within a decade after ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

When searching for alien life, it’s not unusual to use Earth as a test bed for theories and even practice runs. Perhaps one ...