Temperature in the Arctic was 1 to 2 °C (1.8 to 3.6 °F) above average in the region and the surrounding seas. The Bering Sea ...

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...

It shows that the Mediterranean was no great barrier for Stone Age people. Future studies, she expects, might well turn up more surprises on both sides of the sea.

As the planet heats up and Antarctica’s ice sheet melts at a faster pace, scientists warn of a steady rise in sea levels that could put coastal ... data has become widely available in the satellite ...

Global sea ice reached a new record low in February, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. This data, which combines the extent of sea ice from the Arctic and ...

There is much scientific disagreement about the remote effects of Arctic sea ice loss. So far, many studies have focused on the long-term effects, on a scale of centuries. Others have investigated ...

China issued a map in 1947 detailing its claims over a vast majority of the area with the so-called nine-dash line and calls it the South Sea, while the Philippines calls its own claimed parts the ...

"China appears intent on trying to turn the Caribbean Sea into a Chinese lake with its strategic investments and attempts to secure influence in the region," Mendoza said. "The Trump ...

Aussies on-board a cruise ship have been forced to spend days longer at sea as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred loomed, throwing travel plans into chaos. Those aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the ...