Something alarming is happening at the top of the world. Polar bears, long regarded as the living symbol of a warming planet, are getting physically smaller. Their bodies are lighter, their cubs are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The emperor penguins of Antarctica are threatened by a loss of sea ice which is retreating because of climate change according to ...

In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that ...

A decade ago, southern sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists say the culprit was a "very violent release" of deep, pent-up heat. Something strange has been swirling in the waters ...

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to basically tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents. Arctic sea ice levels, ...

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Something strange has been swirling in the waters around Antarctica. From the 1970s until a decade ago, the floating sea ice that radiates from the continent had been expanding, even with climate ...

Stable sea ice along Alaska’s coast is disappearing faster than expected, with the season shrinking by weeks and even months in recent decades. The ice is forming later in the fall and, in some places ...