The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, with average temperatures increasing by about 4°C in the last four ...

A coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and blankets parts of ...

President Trump’s obsession with “owning” Greenland has been described as a massive threat to global security that undermines NATO and the trust of our closest allies in Europe, who have responded by ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet and influences weather patterns around the world, but it is disappearing faster than ever as the climate warms. Scientists have now developed a new forecasting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends ...

Scientists have unveiled a powerful new method for predicting Arctic sea ice months in advance, just as climate change drives rapid ice loss.

The Arctic is not just getting warmer. It is starting to behave in new manners in ways that are dangerous for nature. For decades, scientists mostly tracked average changes. Slightly warmer summers.

Decades of advances in satellite observation made it seem as though Arctic snow cover was growing, when in reality satellites ...

These polar bears appear to be maintaining their physical health despite the loss of sea ice—their preferred hunting grounds ...

In 2014, Donald Trump tweeted: "Just out—the POLAR ICE CAPS are at an all time high, the POLAR BEAR population has never been stronger." That claim was disputed by climate specialists, and indeed the ...

As the sea ice melts due to climate change, the trend of polar bears getting thinner and having fewer cubs has been well documented in areas such as Baffin Bay, a stretch of ocean between Greenland ...

While its true that trees pull carbon from the atmosphere and store it within their woody biomass, the afforestation of the boreal forests—along with increased frequency of wildfires—is releasing that ...