As rising temperatures melt Greenlandic ice sheets, the changes are set to ripple across the planet. The Arctic is also ...

China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists continue to uncover mounting evidence that melting Arctic glaciers are changing our world forever.

PanStar Acro, bound for Europe via Arctic, is testing whether a route opened by melting sea ice is commercially viable.

The dilemma of the melting Arctic sea ice, recently highlighted by a new WWF report, has hit the mainstream press, with this article in the UK's Independent newspaper saying that that “for the first ...

SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A South Korean container ship sets sail on Saturday for Europe via the Arctic in the nation's first ...

Heavier shipping in the area would bring several risks at once: more fuel use, more underwater noise, more pollution, and a ...

US government scientists reported Monday that the Arctic Ocean’s floating ice cover has shrivelled to its second lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979. Until this month, only once in the ...

Deep beneath the Arctic Ocean, a surprising transformation is taking place. Melting icebergs are creating new habitats on the Arctic seafloor by dropping rocks carried from distant glaciers, giving ...

Arctic sea ice is melting rapidly for the forth year in a row. Winter ice coverage is smaller and spring melting set is earlier. Arctic sea ice is melting rapidly for the forth year in a row. Winter ...

How can melting sea ice drive cloud formation? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how Arctic meltwater is a ...

Beijing’s new ‘Ice Silk Road’ cuts through a melting Arctic, and could prompt fresh tensions with the US, say analysts.