Over the first three weeks of August, the average temperature in Fargo was nearly 4 degrees below average. One of the principal reasons for that change in the weather pattern was the development of a ...

In 2025, China's crewed submersible Fendouzhe plunged more than three miles beneath Arctic pack ice to explore the eastern Gakkel Ridge, reaching a maximum depth of 5,277 meters. Supported by the ...

With the loss of the Arctic's sea ice a worrisome trend, projections continue to indicate when the region could see its first instance of an individual, ice-free day. A recent study has indicated that ...

Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades As its extent shrunk, the oldest and ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the ...