WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert ...

A research team has found that summer rainfall in the Arctic would increase by about 17% under 2°C global warming, approximately 16% of which is attributed to sea ice retreat. Their findings were ...

As summer wanes in the Northern Hemisphere, scientists are sounding the alarm over what could be one of the most extreme Arctic melt seasons in recorded history — a shift with potentially far-reaching ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder said that the summer ice in the Arctic was already nearing its lowest level recorded, even though the summer melt season is not yet over. “The ...

Reports about the melting ice caps are distressing, but for the most part climate change remains abstract. The poor polar bear has been trotted out as the tangible face of global warming so often that ...

Much of the hand-wringing over global warming may be for naught. The New York Times has just published an article concluding that the Arctic ice cap is shrinking, and while that may be bad for polar ...

Most people view the melting of the Arctic ice cap with gloom and dark foreboding. But there are more than a few who view the phenomenon as an opportunity. One of the underreported aspects of the ...

Formula E has broken yet more ground by taking its all-electric car to the Arctic ice cap in Greenland for a special demonstration with Brazilian driver Lucas di Grassi. In a bid to raise awareness ...

2006-09-13 14:55:00 PDT GREENBELT, MD.-- The vast expanses of ice floating in the Arctic Sea are shrinking in winter as well as summer, most likely a result of global warming, NASA scientists said ...

This 2018 satellite photo of ice caps on the Arctic islands of Russia's Severnaya Zemlya archipelago highlights the beautiful concentric rings of color in the ice, which stand out against the islands' ...

* Diminishing trend for ice pack seen continuing * Thaw bad for polar bears, good for shipping (Adds details, quotes) By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed ...