The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.

Climate Change Is Melting The Polar Ice Cap And The Navy Is Looking North The Pentagon has long acknowledged climate change has broad implications for national security. That is especially clear ...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is leading a legal challenge against the U.S. Interior Department’s May 14 decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. In a ...

As the polar ice caps continue to shrink, ... Alaska, and Russia. Eegeesiak says this concern extends beyond large cruises into yachts, expedition ships, and sailboats. ...

The polar ice sheets are now a familiar sight on the television news, but people once considered the Arctic and Antarctic so remote, unchanging and extreme that they seemed more mythical than real.

Børge Ousland, a polar explorer currently attempting to ski across the world's twenty largest ice caps together with french adventurer Vincent Coliard to document climate change effects ...

That said, the polar outbreak definitely does not disprove that Arctic sea ice is not melting, as Limbaugh concludes. Sea ice at the North Pole is obviously not melting right this second. That’s ...

Understanding the structure of sea ice can reveal not only how fast sea ice will melt and the climate impact from shrinking polar ice caps, but also provide clues for better understanding ...

Arctic ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the summer of 2007, the latest sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years, climate scientists said on Wednesday.