Arctic sea ice hit its second straight record-low winter peak in 2026, driven by unusually warm conditions in key regions.

Pictured is a digital render of an Arctic Security Cutter. A company building Arctic icebreaker ships in Galveston and Port Arthur received $21.8 million in state funding. Officials said the project ...

“Climate change is rapidly and actively changing the geopolitical dynamics” in the region, an Arctic researcher says. A Chinese company is preparing to sail a cargo ship along Russia’s northern coast ...

When the Chinese cargo freighter Istanbul Bridge set sail for Europe in late September, it took an unusual route. Instead of heading south for the 40-day voyage through the Suez Canal, it tacked north ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing ...

The shell of ice that expands atop the Arctic Ocean every winter has done all the growing it will do this season—and that hasn’t been much. In fact, the annual winter maximum sea ice extent this year ...

Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...

Arctic sea ice has large effects on the global climate. By cooling the planet, Arctic ice impacts ocean circulation, atmospheric patterns, and extreme weather conditions, even outside the Arctic ...