Old Man Winter will begin to ease his icy grip on much of the central and eastern United States in the coming days and weeks, but there will still be some periodic outbursts from the Arctic, ...

The video shows an area in Antarctica where rocky outcroppings jut up above the ice sheet. The building is a South African research station.

Investing in ocean research, infrastructure, and the ocean studies workforce is needed to understand how a changing ocean ...

Fields of glistening snow and iceberg peaks are what many people think of when they hear of the Arctic. However, this ...

Arctic cyclones may be accelerating sea ice loss by breaking ice into smaller pieces and driving upwelling of warm water. A study links these storms to rapid ice depletion and suggests that tropopause ...

Please contact [email protected] if you wish to receive the overview document in any of the languages listed. Working with Canadian and international partners from ...

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

Use a map-based interface to spatially compare sea ice extent for any two days or months between 1979 and present. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ...

Thule is less known than other places in classical mythology like Atlantis. But Thule actually existed. The prickly question is, where was it?

As the climate crisis intensifies, the significance of the Arctic is increasing. Areas that were once inaccessible are now ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...