Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the ...

USCGC Polar Star left Elliott Bay Wednesday for Operation Deep Freeze, supporting the annual resupply of U.S. Antarctic research stations.

"Private jets are a surprisingly large source of air and climate pollution," said Daniel Sitompul, Aviation Fellow at the ...

The Trump administration and Congress, seeking to improve security, have approved funding for eight icebreakers and are ...

This spring, when I set out to report on the vanishing world of Inuit polar-bear hunters for The New Yorker’s Far-Flung Correspondents special centenary issue, I initially planned to head up to ...

This decline of summer sea ice area has a multitude of effects, from changing local ecosystems to allowing more shipping through the Arctic Ocean. It also enhances global warming, because the loss of ...

Russia has laid the keel for the nuclear-powered icebreaker Stalingrad, the seventh Project 22220 vessel, as it expands its ...

After years of underfunding, the Coast Guard’s icebreaker fleet is undergoing a massive expansion, with almost $9 billion for ...

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

A new five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan proposes 21 sales in Alaska, from the Gulf of Alaska to the High Arctic, ...

Commissioned on Sept. 8 in Severomorsk, the ship is the first of two new vessels that combine icebreaking capability with ...

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...