JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The first oil and gas lease sale held in years in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska was touted by ...

As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim into risky polar bear territory if the menu is varied ...

A study reveals that geoengineering plans to save polar ice would not work and could cause environmental damage.

Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed ...

Bowhead whales survived thousands of years of climate change, but human hunting caused damage that still continues today.

Thousands have perished on ice in recent decades as conditions become thinner and less reliable for those who depend on lakes, rivers, and coastal waters ...

While March is normally a volatile month for weather across the U.S., this month seems to be especially off the rails, ...

Version 2 of Arctic Sea Ice Seasonal Change and Melt/Freeze Climate Indicators from Satellite Data, Version 2, is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive ...

Meteorologists say the United States is getting hit by almost every kind of extreme weather at once, as spring air masses collide and the jet stream twists.

The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...