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Global warming and political decisions are opening the Arctic and its frosty seas to increased development. But what will happen if that expansion results in oil spills in the frozen ocean? Nancy Bazilchuk reports...
Never before have researchers recorded so little sea ice around the Antarctic during the summer months of the southern hemisphere. Half of Weddell Sea is currently not covered with ice. As Barbara Barkhausen in...
The Arctic has a serious litter problem: in just ten years, the concentration of marine litter at a deep-sea station in the Arctic Ocean has risen 20-fold. This was recently reported in a study...
The world has just witnessed the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, the United Nations weather agency reported. Weather-related events are now forcibly displacing more people than conflict and...
Scientists have found strong evidence that human-induced climate change increased the severity of heat waves that hit India, Pakistan, Europe, East Africa, East Asia and Australia in 2015, helping to make it the warmest...
Sea ice around the Antarctic continent has continued to break winter records, while in the Arctic Ocean it melted to its sixth lowest extent, say scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre...
