Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists continue to uncover mounting evidence that melting Arctic glaciers are changing our world forever.

Arctic sea ice levels are crucial to Earth's climate because, without the ice reflecting sunlight, more heat energy goes into the oceans.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists have identified an atmospheric phenomenon that could accelerate Arctic ice melt in the coming ...

Arctic sea ice is melting at an alarming rate this summer because of record high temperatures. The heat had an especially devastating impact in Greenland. According to NASA scientists, the ice sheet ...

Tiny particles bubbling up from melting Arctic sea ice play a key role in cloud formation, suggests new research. The discovery may explain why Arctic clouds behave differently — and lead to improved ...

Hundreds of Arctic rivers and streams are turning bright red-orange, not from chemical pollution, but from naturally occurring iron spilling from long-frozen ground as temperatures warm. The "rusting ...

On this Earth Day, Bill Weir traveled to the remote Arctic island of Svalbard, Norway to look at how quickly glaciers are ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record. Here are some key points about the planet's ice as human-induced global ...

Sea ice north of Greenland.Credit: Courtesy Andy Mahoney, NSIDC. For the past 30 years, satellites have been tracking a stunning decline in the sea ice and snow cover blanketing the Arctic. Now, new ...