Trapped in the frozen silence of the Arctic, I fished through the ice, foraged what little nature offered, and fought to stay ...

But spending time on the ice with people who rely on it for their way of life provides a different perspective. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed ...

The Polar areas of the Arctic and Antarctic are the coolers of the world. In the Arctic there is floating sea ice covering the more than 4,000 m deep central Arctic Ocean surrounded by islands like ...

On Sept. 24, 2025, a rumor spread online that Norway's engineers had created a novel invention to help Arctic seals: floating "ice pods" that give the animals somewhere to "rest, raise pups, and ...

The study showed that ice at -10 °C (14 °F) releases more iron from mineral deposits than liquid water at 4 °C (39.2 °F). “It may sound counterintuitive, but ice is not a passive frozen block,” says ...

Up Norway has designed an all-female Arctic empowerment expedition led by the first Norwegian woman to summit Everest, combining practical skills such as ice fishing and fire-building with personal ...

Up Norway introduced a seven-day “Arctic Women, Blazing Trails: A Hosted Women’s Empowerment Trip” expedition, which will be led Randi Skaug, the first Norwegian woman to summit Mount Everet and ...

A coastal Arctic cave in northern Norway has turned up an Ice Age animal community that feels both familiar and foreign. The bones point to an Arctic coast with birds, fish, and mammals living side by ...

Alexandra Jahn receives funding from the National Science Foundation. As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of ...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat ...

Arctic sea ice hit its 2025 summer minimum without setting a record low on Sept. 10, despite a historically low winter maximum earlier in the year. Scientists say sea ice loss has slowed over the past ...