Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers discovered various pesticides and pollutants while studying three glaciers in the Arctic Ocean. Their ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the wake of the plastics treaty talks in Ottawa, a new report highlights the severe impacts of plastics and petrochemicals on Arctic Indigenous ...

Arctic climate already is known to be particularly prone to global warming caused by industrial and automotive emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Now, a University of Utah study ...

A Dartmouth-led study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental ...

WASHINGTON—The icy region at the top of the globe, lashed by wildfire and pelted with increasingly heavy precipitation, has tipped into “uncharted territory,” scientists reported Tuesday. The Arctic ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Aarhus University and the ...

BREMERHAVEN, Germany (StudyFinds.org) — Plastic pollution in the Arctic is as bad as anywhere else on Earth, warns a new study. Debris from fabrics, personal care products, packaging and other ...

A team of researchers discovered various pesticides and pollutants while studying three glaciers in the Arctic Ocean. Their findings reveal how a shifting climate is making our planet vulnerable to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - An Icebreaker makes the path for a cargo ship with an iceberg in the background near a port on the Alexandra Land island ...