In a nutshell Polar bear fur repels ice thanks to a specialized hair grease (sebum) that gives them ice adhesion strength comparable to high-tech synthetic materials, making it extremely difficult for ...

The temperatures stayed inexplicably high for 10 days, driven in part by a previous record-breaking heatwave that two years earlier had depleted the region’s sea ice. Scientists collecting moss ...

The necessity to ensure security over this region has, and will, only become more vital for American interests as climate change increases the arctic melt, opening up previously frozen shipping ...

The New Point (NP) is a radio program that grew so popular that it began almost round-the-clock multi-genre broadcasting ...

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its ...

Massive oceans, sprawling rainforests, and frozen permafrost in the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) all play their part in maintaining a healthy global ecosystem. But with the introduction of ...

TASS also reported that a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker sustained hull damage this week after a collision in the Kara Sea during "harsh Arctic conditions" but there were no injuries.

This reduction in ice has also increasingly opened up Arctic sea routes, north of the Canadian mainland and Russia. So much so that, in the decade from 2013 to 2023, the total recorded annual ...

The Arctic, once a frozen wilderness, is quickly becoming a ... the increasing accessibility of existing trade routes like the Northern Sea Route (NSR) - or the potential for new routes like ...