The Biden administration is leading a campaign against Russian attempts to assert authority over Arctic shipping and reintroduce a military dimension to discussions over international activity in the area.
Seventeen people were missing and two others rescued after a Russian fishing boat sank in the Barents Sea, local media reported on Monday.
The Arctic's rapid warming could have been triggered by a series of great earthquakes, suggests new research.
A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour there due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.
The National Centre of Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) has found a dramatic decline in the Arctic sea ice due to global warming and said that the largest decline took place in July 2019.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an investigation into the cause of an Arctic oil spill last week.
The largest hole in the earth's ozone layer over the Arctic has closed. Scientists have confirmed that the largest hole in the ozone layer which was 1 million square kilometers wide over the Arctic has now healed.
The Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last decade alone, whereas the Earth as a whole has warmed by nearly the same amount over the past 137 years, according to a study which examined the global consequences of continued polar warming. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, documented the effects of warming in the Arctic and Antarctic on wildlife, traditional human livelihoods, tundra vegetation, methane release, and loss of sea- and land ice.
The gradual acidification of the subarctic region of the Pacific ocean, is causing a significant increase in the production of nitrous oxide, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas, according to a study.
After several days of searching, researchers found a suitable floe measuring about 2.5 kilometres by 3.5 kilometres (1.5 miles by 2.2 miles) in the Arctic Sea north of Russia that will serve as a base for the mission, the institute said.
India has been re-elected as an observer to intergovernmental forum Arctic Council, officials said on Tuesday.
Nature’s clock is running fast in the Arctic, thanks to climate change. Due to diminishing sea ice cover, spring is coming sooner to some plant species in the low Arctic of Greenland, while other species
London: For the first in over 100,000 years, Arctic could be ice-less this year or next, claims a leading Cambridge scientist. According to Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University in the UK, we could see
Mumbai, July 3: The Arctic is much more than polar bears, icebergs or auroras. Spectacular photos of Arctic region of Canada are now being showcased in India, a country that has been recently granted observer
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