The Arctic's "Last Ice Area" (LIA)—a vital habitat for ice-dependent species—might disappear within a decade after the ...

Check and measure before walking on the ice. This particular winter has had long periods of arctic temperatures, which is ...

The Arctic ice still harbors some sanctuaries. Among them, the "Last Ice Area" seemed to resist the upheavals of climate ...

As you probably know, the last few winter seasons we have not been very cold. The arctic air that is needed to generate ice on the surrounding lakes has been very limited. However, this winter has ...

Polar bears have a built-in defense against ice — greasy fur. A team of scientists has discovered that their fur is coated in ...

but it also resolves the question of why polar bears don’t suffer from ice accumulation,” Dr Hobbs said. Although polar bears have thick layers of insulating blubber and fur, and spend ...

Scientists have been studying the melting of Arctic glaciers for years. In addition to the progressive warming of the climate ...

Almost 90,000 excess winter deaths were reported as the Big Freeze took a hold, with snow paralysing the country for three arduous months ...

When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way and wander onto the frozen Arctic Ocean.

In the blue light of an early Arctic morning, seven wolves slid across a frozen pond, yipping and squealing and chasing a chunk of ice about the ... into the soil, the thick bone yellowed with ...

The Circum-Arctic permafrost and ground ice map is available via ftp in ESRI Shapefile format ... ranges of permafrost temperature and thickness (Brown et al. 1997). Blue outlined yellow areas on the ...

Clouds, composed of tiny water droplets or ice crystals, play a vital role in regulating Earth's climate by influencing the ...