Scientists call Arctic 'blank space' on world archaeology map Scientists say that 30,000 years ago the level of culture, technologies and hunting skills in the Siberian Arctic was very high ...

This year's frenzy of oil and gas exploration in newly accessible Arctic waters could be the harbinger of even starker changes to come.

The Arctic covers around 5% of the planet's surface, but it is capturing a disproportionate amount of attention. With temperatures rising at twice the global rate, the region's summer sea ice is ...

The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear sign the climate crisis is happening faster than expected as the world continues to ...

Around the world, wildfires are moving underground, ... With the exception of the Arctic 2024 wildfires map, data on daily fire detections are based on a 7-day rolling average.

A new study shows that the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the world over the past 43 years. This means the Arctic is on average around 3℃ warmer than it was in 1980.

The world is heating up. By the 2010s, the global average temperature of the air above the surface was about 1°C higher than in the 1940s. But some regions are warming much faster.

Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in ...

Dramatic changes to polar ice caps revealed on new map of Arctic and Antarctica. The new edition - with Antarctica on one side and the Arctic on the reverse - contains brand new sea ice extent ...

T he icy landscape of the Arctic, once reserved for only the most adventurous mariners, is now accessible to tourists who want to see the North Pole in luxury. Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot, a ...