Based on the current pledges of countries for limiting their emissions of greenhouse gases, global temperatures are projected to reach 2.7 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels by the end of ...

Wildfire aerosols travel thousands of kilometers to the Arctic, influencing ice cloud formation at warmer temperatures.

Though some snow is possible with this system, the main weather threat will be freezing rain, and thus ice, forecasters said. The ice on the roads could lead to dangerous to "impossible" travel ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise missiles near NATO members Norway, Finland and Sweden. That drill followed ...

The ArcticCam gives the real-time view from the second floor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner building in Fairbanks, Alaska. The camera is looking south toward the Chena River and downtown ...

In truth, the ice pack is in near-constant motion: flexing and breaking, flowing and piling up as winds and currents push it around the Arctic. These forces compact ice, creating thick ridges that ...

When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: “It’s the best job in Alaska.” After a few seconds of pondering, I nodded ...

The 'Last Ice Area' is expected to be the final place in the Arctic where ice persists all year round even as our planet warms up – but a new study suggests the region, and the ecosystem that relies ...

The training was led by the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMAIN), which also provides legal training and support to detainees at the Aurora field ... on the day Boulder Reporting Lab ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have uncovered the remnants of an ancient glacier, possibly over a million years ...

See our Citation Policies for more details about how to structure your data citation. The Circum-Arctic permafrost and ground ice map is available via ftp in ESRI Shapefile format and Equal-Area ...

Stroeve, J. & Meier, W. N. (2016). Gridded Observational Sea Ice Thickness Products. (NSIDC-0690, Version 1). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. National Snow and Ice Data Center. [describe subset ...