As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

On a flat map, Greenland looks like a lonely white expanse at the top of the world. On the right projections, it jumps out as ...

In the last few decades, Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent. One of the main drivers of this development is ...

Researchers show that the all-time record low in winter sea ice extent in 2023 can be explained by warm Southern Ocean conditions and patterns in the winds that circled Antarctica months earlier, ...

View across the ocean. With course to the northeast, across the Barents Sea, the German Polarstern research vessel leaves the harbour of Tromsø. In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has receded ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...