At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea ...

Standing tall with a vertical drop of an astonishing 11,500 feet (3,500 meters), it’s over three times the height of the ...

Each year, millions of people visit Niagara Falls to admire the roaring water cascading over a series of steep rocky […] ...

Arctic sea ice is shrinking as humans continue to ... submersible pumps under sea ice to pump seawater onto the surface. The water freezes as it pools across the ice like a huge puddle, creating ...

The Arctic is home to pristine artifacts. A few archeologists are rushing to find them, and the critical clues they can offer ...

The debate over deep-sea mining exposes a contradiction between the country’s proud culture of environmental stewardship and ...

For decades, the Arctic has steadily been losing sea ice, causing some climatologists to guess that the first month of an ice ...

Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 10, we brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, to report on the state of the Arctic ...

Unlike glaciers or ice sheets on land, Arctic sea ice is already in the ocean so its melting won't cause sea levels to rise. This is the same reason that a glass full of ice and water doesn't ...

Chukchi and Beaufort sea habitats. However, ringed seals are eating more saffron cod rather than the more nutritious Arctic cod. Arctic cod are very sensitive to water temperature. As waters warm ...