An image captured off the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows a young polar bear drifting to sleep on a small iceberg after carving a bed in the ice.

Just north of Cape Morris Jesup, several other small islands had been discovered over the decades, and then disappeared. You may like New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice ...

A 2012 satellite photo captured a patch of snow-covered sea ice with an uncannily similar shape to badges pinned on the ...

Arctic ice formation 'Mesechev Island' disappears due to climate change. ... showed a small island with an area of approximately 0.53 square kilometers. By August ... leading to rising sea levels, ...

Ghost Islands Of The Arctic: ... Greenland coast spotted what appeared to be a previously uncharted island. It was small and ... these were rocky banks that had been pushed up by sea ice.

King Island, Alaska, roughly 85 miles off the coast of Nome, is home to the now abandoned village of Ukivok. In the early 20th century, nearly 200 people — the Ugiuvangmiut — lived in small ...

Each year, Arctic sea ice expands as the sea surface freezes during the long, dark winter. At its maximum in March, the ice covers nearly the entire Arctic Ocean, almost 6 million square miles.

Trees are gaining ground in the Arctic as a result of climate change. A group of scientists studying tree cover in Alaska’s Brooks Range found that trees are expanding north and at higher ...

Swedish photographer Christian Aslund visited the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, capturing images that recreated archive pictures of glaciers taken from the same locations more than 100 years ago.

[Photo: Arctic Reflections] The basic approach has already been used at a small scale in the Arctic for other reasons. Ice roads have been built so trucks can reach remote areas—like mines—by ...

Ghost Islands Of The Arctic: ... Greenland coast spotted what appeared to be a previously uncharted island. It was small and ... these were rocky banks that had been pushed up by sea ice.