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It’s no secret that the Arctic is in trouble. And while the worrying state of the ice in the region has made…

Scientists have spent the past 15 years pulling together data about the Arctic into an annual report card. What’s…

Researchers have uncovered what they’re calling a “bonanza” of ancient arrows and other hunting equipment, as well…

Growing up in New England, I used to spend winter weekends skating on ponds and the occasional drainage ditch in the…

Someday, I would like to write a happy story about ice. Today is not that day.

On Thursday, a new study came out warning that even if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide, the world has reached the…

Svalbard, Norway, is home to the world’s doomsday seed vault because it’s so cold. But the climate crisis is changing…

Last summer, researchers anchored underwater listening devices to the bottom of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic. Now,…

Norwegian climate activists are taking their government to court over Arctic drilling. The case’s fate could have…

Scientists have long assumed that a thick, solid mass of permafrost underpins all of Alaska like the sturdy…

Arctic ice is seasonal. It melts down in the summer sun and relative warmth, then freezes back up when fall’s chill…

Twelve years ago, I strode by Clark Glacier on the flanks of South Sister, the tallest of a cluster of three…

A biologist working off the Ross Sea in Antarctica has stumbled upon an assortment of Adélie penguin remains, some…

Hey, we haven’t checked in on the Greenland in awhile, let’s see what’s hap... Oh. Oh no.

Arctic sea ice shrank to its second lowest level on record, researchers announced on Monday. Sorry.

There have been some pretty freaky things happening in the Arctic this year, with historic levels of ice melt, absurd…

As the world’s ice sheets have been cracking up and melting down, climatologists have warned that further decimation…

The Arctic has seen some weird happenings as the climate crisis reshapes the region, but among the most dramatic was…

At Earther, we’ve been following the historic extent of ice melt in the Arctic this summer pretty closely. But not…

Antarctica’s coast is home to roughly 50 ice shelves—floating ledges of ice that jut out from the edge of the…