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An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

25 June 2018

The Barents Sea, home to a diverse array of wildlife, could be completely gone in just a few years – perhaps the most dramatic impact of climate change yet seen

Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

25 April 2018

This photoset is a glimpse into life as an ice watcher – flying long missions over frozen polar terrain to keep tabs on the warming world

Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

3 April 2018

Bowhead whales are such talented singers they can make two sounds simultaneously, and they invent new songs every year

Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe

12 March 2018

Melting Arctic ice flooding into the Atlantic could put the ocean circulation that warms Europe in danger, triggering dramatic sea-level rise and drought

Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

8 March 2018

The unusually cold and snowy conditions hitting the US now, and experienced last week across Europe, may be a direct consequence of the Arctic's warmer winter

A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas

7 March 2018

Arctic routes are getting busier and some ships get trapped in the ice. Rather than smash them out with brute force, there is a more elegant way to free them

Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers

27 February 2018

The extreme warmth is likely to slow or prevent the formation of Arctic sea ice, which has been shrinking for decades due to climate change.

Polar bears waste lots of their energy and it could be a problem

1 February 2018

We thought polar bears had neat tricks for conserving energy in lean periods, but it turns out they are not that thrifty, which could cause them trouble in the future

Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater

18 May 2017

A project off Greenland will tag whales with sensors to measure sea temperatures and ice melt in hard-to-reach places, improving predictions of sea-level rise

Arctic oil and gas must remain off limits for good, Trump

3 May 2017

The US president's executive order seeking to overturn a ban on fossil fuel exploration in Arctic waters is unsafe and irresponsible, says Owen Gaffney