Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Expect more activity in the Arctic ocean in spring 2026, when the ice melts. But how quickly the region opens up depends on ...

Ice is not quiet. Standing at the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland under a midnight sun, a clash of titans got underway: “Snap ...

In a study published November 6 in the journal Science, researchers used space dust to make a 30,000-year timeline of ice ...

As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 meters below him high on a glacier ...

The polar ice caps are melting. And this has already led to an increase in the sea level. Between now and 2100, it is ...

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, ...

A recent study proposes that future Mars missions should prioritize searching for microbial life or its preserved remains within the planet's ice, rather than in its rocks, clay, or soil. Researchers ...

Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...