"This is really a new and different Arctic." Scientists issue warning about the Arctic with massive implications for the entire globe: 'We ignore [it] to our peril' first appeared on The Cool Down.

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...

In the past four decades, research shows, the Arctic has heated up four times faster than the rest of the globe. That’s because dwindling sea ice is both a sign of climate change and can drive ...

Its rare earth deposits — 10 percent of the globe’s reserves — power everything from iPhones to F-35s. Its perch in the North Atlantic guards shipping lanes and watches Russia’s Arctic ...

The Arctic is also a place where two of the globe’s greatest threats – climate change and warfare – amplify each other. Sherri Goodman, whose career in the Department of Defense focused on ...

Greenlanders are increasingly worried that their homeland has become a pawn in the competition between the US, Russia, and ...

This is dangerous for human life and infrastructure”. The rapid warming of the Arctic is changing weather patterns around the ...

The system will cost $6-billion over 20 years to build and run, money that’s already budgeted to modernize NORAD ...

"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else ... landmass is melting vulnerable sea ice toward northern parts of the globe. It's like a self-reinforcing feedback loop that spells danger ...