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All of our meddling has primed Earth to collapse under cities and belch greenhouse gases, a nasty feedback loop that’s accelerating global warming.

The global temperature was down, thanks to La Niña, but it was still the sixth-hottest year on record. And 2 billion people had their warmest year yet.

Soaring temperatures are rapidly thawing permafrost, leading to huge sinkholes called thermokarst. Northern fires are making the situation even worse.

Global warming is making it harder to predict the movement and location of the ice cover, crucial information for fishing and global shipping.

Rising temperatures in the northern polar cap are driving extreme heat, drought, and sea level rise in the continental US, a study says.

A geoengineering nonprofit wants to spread silicate beads over polar sea ice to prevent the absorption of heat, but some scientists have their doubts.

The discovery of an unlikely relationship between melting sea ice and magnets could help scientists produce better models of the global climate.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo berated China this week for using its growing Arctic research program as a Trojan horse for its military and commercial goals.

Diamond mines in Canada have a short window in which to truck in their equipment—satellite sensors could help ice roads keep on truckin’.

The probe with the famous name may soon have a new claim to fame, by crossing the Arctic Ocean on the longest underwater robot journey yet.

More container ships on Arctic sea routes will also mean more black soot... and more melting.

When photographer Reuben Wu visited the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway, the sun never strayed far from the horizon.

As the ground shifts beneath their feet, officials in Canada’s Nunavut turn to creative engineering to save scarce homes—and plan for a future built on bedrock.

Arctic sea ice is unexpectedly in motion, making the research trip far too dangerous for the ship and the scientists it would be carrying.

Antarctic researchers test their ideas about how humans could live on Mars. But these windows into life on the red planet could be closing.

See ya sea ice. Arctic temperatures are burning 30 degrees above normal, and not even polar night can cool it down.

A group of 28 nations are meeting in Washington DC to work on better ways to map and track Arctic sea ice loss.

The US is unprepared for the profound changes occurring in the Arctic. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the pitiful state of its icebreaker fleet.

New, unclassified maps from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency show how the Arctic is heating up--literally and geopolitically.

NASA created a stunning visualization of ice developing over the northern pole, and the sheets just don't reach as far as they used to.

When Camille Seaman started photographing icebergs and other arctic wonders, she wasn’t thinking about climate change. She simply found the frozen landscape and white vistas visually stunning. Still, you can’t help but associate her images with the ongoing conversation about climate change. Seaman, 45, says she too sees her work as directly connected and aptly […]

For our second Science Graphic of the Week, we bring you some beautiful views of some bad news. The images in the gallery above show how pulses of warm water, dumped into chilly Arctic seas by rivers crossing continents, are melting sea ice.

After an unsuccessful trip to witness the aurora borealis from the upper tip of Norway, photographer Reuben Wu decided to venture even farther afield in search of the celestial light show. Choosing the remote, frozen island of Svalbard, Wu quickly made its strange environment the new focus of his time there.

A new ship is making waves for its ability to break through ice frontwards, backwards, and even sideways. But the Arctech NB 508 has even more tricks up its sleeve.