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Arctic Winter Sea Ice Hits Lowest Extent on Satellite Record in 2026
May 01, 2026 (SPX)
The sea-ice extent peaked at 13.76 million square kilometers on March 13, 2026 -- approximately 0.03 million square kilometers below the 2025 record. The figure...
ESA Teams Head to Canadian Arctic to Calibrate Three Upcoming Copernicus Sea Ice Satellites
Apr 26, 2026 (SPX)
The six-week Copernicus Expansion Missions Sea Ice Experiment brings together researchers from institutions including the University of Calgary, the Technical U...
SWOT maps widespread eddies along Antarcticas coastal seas
Apr 17, 2026 (SPX)
The team was led by Professors Dake Chen and Xianxian Han from Sun Yat-sen University and the Alfred Wegener Institute. They used the mission's high-resolution ...
Slow boat to Ilulissat: long nights on Greenland's last ferry
Apr 02, 2026 (AFP)
Among them are an ethnologist and a few Danish tourists, but most are Greenlanders from the 74 villages and settlements that dot the west coast, a thin strip of...
Spire RF sensing data maps Arctic sea ice freeboard across winter
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
GNSS signals have traditionally been used for positioning and navigation, but this work highlights how analyzing their reflections from Earth's surface can exte...
In Finland, kids take hovercraft to school over frozen Baltic Sea
Mar 07, 2026 (AFP)
Due to unusually thick ice this winter, a hovercraft called "Snovit" ("Snow White") has replaced the ferries that normally transport 12-year-old Hugo Wickstrom,...
Antarctic sea ice improves after four years of extreme lows: US scientists
Feb 24, 2026 (SPX)
Flights map how aerosols shape Antarctic clouds
Feb 24, 2026 (SPX)
To close this gap, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric R...
Antarctic drilling peers into ice sheet's deep past
Feb 17, 2026 (AFP)
The vast expanse is estimated to hold enough ice to raise global sea levels by four to five metres (13 to 16 feet), said the international team of 29 researcher...
Greenland's west coast posts warmest January on record
Feb 16, 2026 (AFP)
While Europe and North America experienced a cold snap in January, Nuuk registered an average monthly temperature of 0.1C (32 Fahrenheit), a whopping 7.8C above...
NATO launches 'Arctic Sentry' mission after Greenland crisis
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
"Arctic Sentry underscores the alliance's commitment to safeguard its members and maintain stability in one of the world's most strategically significant and en...
Russia avoids confrontation in Arctic, Norwegian official says
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
Warming climate threatens Greenland's ancestral way of life
Feb 10, 2026 (AFP)
"Normally the seals are on the ice or in the more calm waters. But today we had to sail all the way into the fjords to find them," the 37-year-old tells AFP. Th...
Norway says Russia, China seek to up presence on Svalbard
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
In its annual threat assessment, the Norwegian Intelligence Service said that "from Moscow's perspective, Svalbard's strategic location makes it necessary to ma...
Study maps thousands of non native plants that could colonize Arctic
Feb 05, 2026 (SPX)
The team focused on roughly 14,000 alien plant species that are already known to spread beyond their original ranges. Using more than 51 million occurrence reco...
Polar bears bulk up despite melting Norwegian Arctic: study
Jan 29, 2026 (AFP)
The Barents Sea has lost sea ice faster than other areas with polar bears as temperatures have risen there more than in other Arctic regions, according to the r...
Denmark hails 'very constructive' meeting with US over Greenland
Jan 29, 2026 (AFP)
"We have had the very first meeting at senior official level in Washington yesterday regarding the Greenlandic issue," Lars Lokke Rasmussen told journalists at ...
Greenland dispute is 'wake-up call' for Europe: Macron
Jan 28, 2026 (AFP)
European powers have sought to join forces after US President Donald Trump roiled the transatlantic alliance by threatening to seize strategically-located and m...
NATO chief, Danish PM agree on boosting Arctic security; Danish troops were combat ready in Greenland
Jan 23, 2026 (AFP)
"We're working together to ensure that the whole of NATO is safe and secure and will build on our cooperation to enhance deterrence and defence in the Arctic," ...
In Greenland, locals fed up with deals done over their heads
Jan 22, 2026 (AFP)
Carrying two steaming cappuccinos from a popular American coffee chain on Thursday, Niels Berthelsen took the time to stop despite the icy cold winds whipping t...
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