Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Iceland. Pexels The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern ...

The Arctic is not just warming - it is unraveling. " What makes this so alarming is that these feedback loops don't operate ...

Under the Arctic sea ice, fish and plankton live in complete darkness, even in midsummer. Ice floes stop the sun's rays, ...

The Arctic is not a distant, frozen frontier; it’s the thinning ice sheet revealing cracks in our global climate system ...

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 ...

The retreat of ice in the Barents Sea could be strengthening a key ocean current that regulates global climate.

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

The changes ripple outward. Scientists issue warning after making grim Arctic discovery — here's what they found first appeared on The Cool Down.

I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...

As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the growth of tiny plant-like organisms (phytoplankton). But to thrive, they need ...