The overall, downward trend in the minimum extent from 1979 to 2025 is 12.1 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 ...

Ensign Valarie Hines, an ice pilot aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20), breaks through Arctic ice on the Beaufort ...

Sea ice floating atop the Arctic Ocean reached its minimum extent for 2025 on Sept. 10, covering 4.602 million square ...

For further information, please see our "This year is yet another low extent for Arctic sea ice," said senior scientist Walt Meier. "While not a record low, it is consistent with an Arctic sea ice ...

Moonshot proposals to save the poles are gaining popularity as the planet heats up. But none of the most high-profile ideas ...

U.S. Coast Guard bolsters surface presence and responds to 2 Chinese research vessels in the Arctic  Front Page ...

China’s footprint in the Arctic is already growing, and the development of civil-military capabilities in some of its established polar research stations could provide the foundation for future Arctic ...

If you pull an ice core from the outer edges of the Arctic polar cap, you might spot what looks like a faint line of dirt.

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...

For the first time, researchers report that Arctic algae can hustle along in -15 C – the lowest-temperature movement ever ...