I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. algae under sea ice Scientists have discovered special life forms thriving under Arctic sea ice. Until now, their presence in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Measurements were taken at 13 different locations in the Arctic Ocean. (CREDIT: Lisa W. von Friesen) The Arctic Ocean, once locked ...

Arctic rivers wind through remote tundra and boreal forests, freezing solid in winter and surging each spring with snowmelt, ...

Alaska’s coastal landfast ice is forming later and melting sooner, shrinking the ice season and raising risks for Arctic ...

More than 3,600 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have stumbled onto a hidden world that should not, by conventional wisdom, exist. In the permanent night and crushing pressure of the deep, ...

Life in the Arctic is becoming a constant balancing act. As climate change reshapes the environment, animals must make ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked out onto ...

As global temperatures rise, hunters in Alaska, who rely on Arctic ice, are seeing changes. CU expert Alexandra Jahn explains how these shifts are echoed in satellite data and climate models—on The ...